Islamabad , Nov 14,2026: Poland will not accept a new European security arrangement dictated by Russia or the United States without the participation of European governments, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said late Thursday, following reports that Washington had invited Moscow to propose terms for a future security agreement.
Speaking at a European Political Community summit in Dublin, Tusk warned against allowing outside powers to redesign Europe’s security architecture as part of US-brokered negotiations to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.
“Under no circumstances will we allow anyone to establish new security rules in this part of the world over our heads, Polish or European,” Tusk told reporters. “We will not build a new architecture simply because the Russian president, or someone in the United States, wants it. That is out of the question,” he added.
His remarks followed an Axios report Wednesday that the Trump administration had asked Russia to submit proposals for a new security agreement with Europe, including Moscow’s demands and reciprocal measures to reduce tensions.
According to the report, US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner raised the proposal during talks involving Russian and Ukrainian negotiators in Abu Dhabi earlier this week.
Russia has long sought restrictions on NATO expansion and the alliance’s military presence in Eastern Europe, including countries such as Poland that joined NATO after the Cold War.
In December 2021, Moscow demanded that NATO rule out further enlargement and restrict military deployments in countries admitted to the alliance after 1997. The United States and NATO rejected those demands before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Poland, which joined NATO in 1999, has consistently opposed any agreement granting Moscow influence over the alliance’s military presence or the sovereign security decisions of European states.
Tusk acknowledged Thursday that Poland had not been invited to participate directly in the US-mediated talks with Russia and Ukraine.
Earlier this week, Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said the Pentagon had responded positively to Warsaw’s request for a permanent US base, with a final decision expected from the White House in December.
