Perhaps that's true; perhaps it's not. UKR/NATO propaganda has been so thick -- and questions resisted so vociferously -- that I don't believe anything we're being told. I've been observing and piecing together as many pieces of information as I can find, and strangely finding Russia's frontline reporting to be more forthcoming and rational than the breathless, over-the-top Western accounts that seem to be corrected every few days. The truth is going to come out eventually, so we'll see...
“I don’t believe anything we’re being told.”
That’s not true. You currently believe Russian troops are driving rapidly east toward Donbas. Where did you hear that, and why do you believe it? Are they traveling through Ukraine? Being transported clockwise outside the border of Ukraine? How are they getting from point A to point B?
Every strategist I've heard has said that dividing the attack into 4 columns was the biggest mistake Putin made. Its why Putin hasn't taken all of Ukraine's southeast.