Thoughts on the Russo-Ukranian War?

[MontyB]

Without claiming to know. I would guess several NATO countries special forces are operating in Ukraine. Other specialists are also there to provide with support of all the different systems the West have giving Ukraine.

I also think Ukraine has hired Western based PMCs

I agree, I would also suspect they have been there a while but this is looking more along the lines of an open deployment of troops.

There has been a lot of discussion recently of countries providing logistics, antiaircraft and border troops to western Ukraine in order to free up Ukrainian manpower, the problem is the political risk of losing troops which is why I assumed the French would use the Foreign Legion rather than actual French troops.