Of course they have, privately, all the while knowing they were never going to get it.

Of course according to the repeated pronouncements of everyone ranging from their President to Foreign Minister to Defense Minister to the ambassadors.

See this report for a brief example: https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN07...

The US and UK governments have been formally and repeatedly asked for help.

This information is also constantly in the news. The US has provided almost $3 Billion in military aid to Ukraine in the past several years alone. The UK has also provided significant amounts of aid. Ditto for NATO. All of these are not 'forced' on Ukraine!

My bad. I've not followed the situation closely enough to see these information before. Thanks for the enlightenment.