A good way to gather data is to look at Twitter and Telegram channels with images and video from the area. Google translate is helpful.
You can also use google maps to verify images if you want to spend the time and effort.
If you want you can gather data on Russian casualties by looking at the funerals announced in Russian local media.
Why should I have to do any of that? If we had a truly free media that cared about reporting the facts, we’d have a realistic picture of what is happening in a country 5000 miles away. The fact that our media refuses to do its job and instead promotes a progressive view of the world is a tragedy that shouldn’t be tolerated by our society.