the EU/US aren't "assisting" Ukraine. They're using it as a hammer to try to weaken a geopolicial rival, without success, all the while sending millions of their supposed "allies" to their deaths without reason or anything to show for it.

Meanwhile, blackrock and other Western multinational corporations are buying what can still be bought in Ukraine - mostly, arable land, much of it literally, as in, the fertile black soil is shipped out, and getting ready for billions of contracts for "rebuilding" (i.e., pocketing the money).

At the same time, old, obsolete military equipment that would have to be carefully dismantled in Western countries, because of environmental legislation, can now be shipped there to be burnt. Not only is this free - this also runs up bills to be paid by other entities later (the EU pays member states for this. In a situation where there is no "one state", but competing arms, these parts can now profit from their old junk).