Kadyrov tells the Europeans: "Where were you when we fought for the independence of Ichkeria? Why didn't they help us?", "No matter how much we want independence, but we have to feed, clothe, shoe 1.5 million people"
Kadyrov,
The West doesn't give a shit about you, nor your plight. We're self-interested like everyone else on this planet. Make no mistake, our unwavering support for Ukraine is the product of two very simple principles.
1). We want Ukraine under western influence, rather than Russian influence. It's the largest country (by geography) in Europe and has an enormous resource base that we don't want Russia controlling moving forward. Rather, we'd like to build a formidable, Western equipped military in Ukraine, right on Russia's door step. For too long they've had too much of a buffer, while they bully and slaughter other people in their region.
2). Ukraine is willing to fight and suffer for its sovereignty and, therefore, can be a tool of the West to fight the cheapest possible proxy war, leaving the Russian military in shambles, it's economy largely unable to trade with the West, it's petro resources (and eventually, natural gas resources) disconnected from Europe, and many of its brightest young minds fleeing the nation. Essentially, Russia will be left as a petro-slave to China and India, routinely exploited, while the Russian people continue to fall behind their Western counterparts in almost all areas of societal advancement.
Putin made a horrendous mistake by assuming that the West is a decadent block of of fickle actors, who wouldn't dare stand up to Russia in support of our self interests. What he's quickly finding out is that we're self-interested pricks, like everyone else, more than willing to watch Russians die by the tens of thousands, because we don't care about them. They're the enemy to us and they're cared for even less back at home. A perfect people to test our new weapons on, and an even better people to kill by clearing out our old warehouses of supplies, so we have a convenient excuse to buy new, better supplies.