You are 100%. The NATO soldiers were in Ukraine way before 2022. What is funny, is that the western audience believes that Russia did not know that. What is a difference between operating weapons systems that kill Russian soldiers and civilians and having the troops on the ground doing the same. No difference.
"The British cried foul and accused Scholz of a "flagrant abuse of intelligence" meaning that Scholz confirmed what everyone already knows that NATO officers and trained personnel are in Ukraine operating weapons such as the Patriot and NASAM air defence system, the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system, the British-French Storm Shadow cruise missile (SCALP-EG in France), and many other complex weapons provided to Ukraine."
