That help is coming in form of both armaments and training such as the AFU members training in France. All that with our taxes and without popular consultation...
It makes no sense for you to write all of this argument and not consider this simple latter point, an aggressor force wanting to annex sections of a different country is getting help from a 3rd party outsider to even deploy troops.
Trying to fake a play as "both sides" is underhanded and shows quite well how immoral you are.
I'd even say Russia just gave the green light for EU countries to replicate what Russia just did, they opened up the debate.
https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2024-07/news/north-korea-rus...
That's also why North Korea bargained some goods in exchange of their support.
> they didn't have a military alliance.
Please just admit you were wrong. If you cannot do that then there is no point in responding to you.
Maybe you can point at some pre-existing defense pact to support your claims signed before the war but I'm not aware of any existing.
It's possible that I missed it though but given that Putin flew in there when the situation got worse to negotiate their war support, I doubt they had one.