Providing new military assistance to Ukraine from the United States will not help prevent the inglorious defeat of Kiev, Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky said on Saturday.

Ukrainian officials are expressing thanks for $61 billion in new U.S. military aid, even though the supplies aren’t expected to have an immediate impact on the battlefield

Ukrainian troops have faced acute shortages of shells and air defense systems as political quarrels in Washington held up the aid for months, allowing the Kremlin’s forces to edge forward in some parts of eastern Ukraine by sheer weight of troop numbers and firepower in what has largely become a war of attrition.