The Netherlands one Western governments typically refrain from commenting on such sensitive matters , but this detail is likely to be seized upon by Moscow , which has in recent months argued that it is not just confronting Ukraine but NATO as well . Oh , and , and essentially , look , this was the , um , uh , uh I think what , when Putin ultimately decided to invade Ukraine last year , I think basically what he concluded was that they did it , they brought Ukraine into NATO , even though Ukraine is not an official NATO country . At this point .
Uh , which is , which is pretty dangerous . Um Western special forces operating inside Ukraine . One document dated 23 March refers to the presence of a small number of Western special forces operating inside Ukraine without specifying their activities or location .
They backed the coup that overthrew the democratic , uh , the democratically elected government under Yanukovych . They poured weapons into the country and they were doing , um , joint training exercises with NATO and the Ukrainian military . And I think Vladimir Putin was basically like we told them this was our brightest of red lines and they crossed it and I got to do something now , I'm not saying he should have done this .
The UK has the largest contingent 50 followed by Latvia 17 , France 15 and the US 14 . The Netherlands one Western governments typically refrain from commenting on such sensitive matters , but this detail is likely to be seized upon by Moscow , which has in recent months argued that it is not just confronting Ukraine but NATO as well . Oh , and , and essentially , look , this was the , um , uh , uh I think what , when Putin ultimately decided to invade Ukraine last year , I think basically what he concluded was that they did it , they brought Ukraine into NATO , even though Ukraine is not an official NATO country .
Um Western special forces operating inside Ukraine . One document dated 23 March refers to the presence of a small number of Western special forces operating inside Ukraine without specifying their activities or location . The UK has the largest contingent 50 followed by Latvia 17 , France 15 and the US 14 .
