No news reporting can be trusted regarding events occurring during an armed conflict, as long as the conflict is continuing. None of it.
You are wrong. I have people on the ground there. It is not that difficult to discern the truth. It was said in the first Soviet era that there was no truth in PRAVDA but the Russians learned to see how the news was reported and even from that, knowing their perspective, could get some idea of the real news. Solzhenitsyn illustrates the concept in CANCER WARD when the expected anniversary of Stalin’s death was largely ignored.