Alternate headline: Russia is winning too slowly says NATO REMF.
The primary consequence of winning slowly is the writers have to literally resort to telepathy to have generate articles for filing by their deadlines and earn their paychecks.
Most writing is offering up something imaginary and then analyzing the imagination in detail.
I have seen RT and Al Jazeera on site reporting from front lines of the Donbas. Almost daily. I have seen a few BBC or WaPo reporters on site close enough to hear the artillery, but not very many at all. Which is more reason for telepathy. They don’t have on site reportage.