The reports keep coming back that the Western aid is being diverted to the black market and little of it gets to the front. And what little does, is blown to oblivion by precision Russian artillery fire. Meanwhile, the pocket is closing and the Ukrainians are being fed into the Russian meat grinder, one toe after the other. Shiny new M777 howitzers and "Cesar" mobile guns will show up, with no crews to man them and no ammo to shoot from them. Giant paperweights. Or tombstones.