[Er, yes. War is hell. Do they think this is some sort of new insight or something?]
They were presumably taken in by the BS peddled by the Biden-loving media about how much firepower the West was providing Ukraine. In reality, it’s an occasional drop rather than a trickle, and certainly not the torrent they were expecting. 10 to 1 fire Russian fire superiority and Russia’s take that all of Ukraine is a free fire zone means that Ukrainian forces are actually worse off than the Taliban or Sunni Arab insurgents, who could hide among civilians, and rely on US ROE’s against harming enemy civilians to keep them safe.