One (unknown to me) user writes in Ukrainian somewhere in Telegram:

In translation: You know what’s pretty funny? Had Ukraine been attacked by some other adversary, we’d sought help from Russians… and they’d immediately have sent everything in need.

Sure, it may be a sockpuppeting troll, but faces of Biden, Blinken, and Graham would provide a decent background for this remark.

It seems that ca. 1B USD, again, had evaporated to realms unknown as Russian careful advance from the border on the Belgorod-Kharkov axis meets a few caltrops.

In translation — not literal, but underlining an inadvertent (?) wordplay, — expert says: Speaking about these 37B UAH that we loot… oops, we put in fortification efforts…

Truly priceless Freudian slip. And he’s not even a Ukrainian himself originally. He, like Mikheil Saakashvili before him, hails from Georgia, as an expat counselor. Thus ever more interesting question arises about who are those we.

Everything indicates that Zelensky and his cronies decided to follow the simplest path and to use cities themselves as fortifications built long before, for free.

On the contrary, failed Ukrainian counteroffensive of the last summer stalled in fields far from Tokmak and Melitopol. Russians could, too, have neglected their fortification duties, as UAF tend to do now, but the difference lies in the fact that Russians did create three Surovikin defense lines in time free from stealing from the treasury.