Our intel agencies are worse than a bad joke. For example...
American and European news reports on the war are on the laughable level of WW2 Tokyo Rose and Axis Sally. They are obviously written by our politicized intel agencies and handed to the controlled Mockingbird Media.
To get anything like an objective view of the war, you have to follow foreign OSINT mappers and analysts like the Singapore-based vlogger Defense Politics Asia.
[ Ukraine SITREP ] Day 83-84 (17-18/5) Summary - Ukr defenses collapsing in Luhansk Southern Front
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxYZ8NAVL8k&ab_channel=DefensePoliticsAsia
[ Kharkiv Front ] Russian forces recaptured Ternova and Rubizhne in a counteroffensive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etupFLmFOwY&ab_channel=DefensePoliticsAsia
[ Popasna Front ] Russian forces captured Trypillya, Volodymyrivka, Novo Kamyanka and Troitske
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caFt1p3ED-M&ab_channel=DefensePoliticsAsia
The Ukraine narrative of we are winning is BS. The best Ukraine can hope for is the status quo ante bellum, but that is less likely now. Ukraine should have implemented the Minsk II agreement in 2015. They would have been able to keep the Donbas region within Ukraine if they had given more local autonomy as agreed to. Now, it is likely two new nations will emerge.