Since the Russians cannot make enough shovels for their troops and mobiks to trench with, then the Russians should buy shovels from their arms supplier, Iran, And have them airlifted in, the way they brought in the Iranian drones.
I have read some of those two accounts previously. Putin the merciless, mass killer of Russians as he sends his ill equipped cannon fodder into Ukraine.
Any money allocated to buying shovels would be quickly embezzled by Russian officers, who live for the perks generated by theft.
The current commanding general has twice been caught selling weapons and was implicated in the “suicide” of a whistle blower he argued with.