In general you should not believe what the Main Stream Media says without independent evidence.
There is plenty of information available from local sources in Ukraine. Google translate is your friend. There is a lot of fighting and indiscriminate bombing and shelling of civilians.
Why should I believe what local people are saying? That’s like believing the moms on TV holding a child who is saying the end is near, run for the hills yet saying she has specific evidence of troop losses, tank losses and so on.
And there have been too many bogus images displayed on TV and online, so I’ll stick with Breitbart, GP, Tim Pool, etc.