You won't like my answer.
The real cannon fodder is the soldiers from India in 1939-45, who fought for the interests of the British Empire thousands of miles from home, while we are fighting for our country.
Your country is fighting for US interests right now.
Before Maidan 2014 regime change I doubt Ukranians considered Russians as "the enemy".
Now suddenly Western media has us believe the the UKR-RUS relationship is like Poland and Russia all along.
Your guys are given half assed material support on purpose just to be cannon fodder and bleed Russia in order to cause some regime change antics there and not defeat it which will cause a balkanization of Russia.
They want Russia intact, but without Putin and his siloviki/intelligence clique, and they will fight till the last Ukranian to get it, that is the reason they don't let you use long range missiles or overdo the drone attacks on Russian territory
Accept the truth that y'all have been had by the West, irrespective of the battlefield situation your men are dead, your towns are bombed out, meanwhile Russkie lands are mostly free of the type of destruction you have faced, many Russians were allowed to escape to neighboring countries while their minorities were fed into the meatgrinder of the war.
However in your context your own men are fed into the meatgrinder because you have no minorities.
Perhaps in the future the West and Russia will come to a peace agreement where they get to keep the land that they grabbed plus some more, but your guys will be in the ground, widows weeping for them, kids orphaned and your country in ruins as a basket case.
Such is the West, and it's "sudden allies" who are just use and throw condoms.