More than 61 percent of Poles reject sending troops on a peacekeeping mission to Ukraine.

According to a poll published Saturday by the Polish daily Rzeczpospolita, 61.1 percent of the Polish population would oppose sending Polish troops to Ukraine on a hypothetical peacekeeping mission.

In contrast, 17.3 percent would support Poland's participation in a multinational force, and 21.6 percent said they had no opinion on the matter, according to the survey conducted by SW Research. These results are based on 800 interviews conducted between Tuesday and Wednesday of last week.

Men (64 percent) are more reluctant than women (59 percent) to send Polish soldiers to Ukraine, and there is also increasing reluctance among the younger population (69 percent) and in cities with more than 20,000 inhabitants (70 percent).

Last February, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk himself ruled out Polish military involvement, but offered logistical and political support. Poland shares a border with Ukraine stretching over 500 kilometers and hosts approximately one million refugees, according to data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), second only to Germany (1.2 million).