“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?
I have no dog in this hunt, and I’m not picking fights or calling anyone names. None of us knows for certain what is really happening on the Ukrainian battlefields; we can only deduce opinions from what we see and hear from propagandists on both sides. Sooner or later the truth will make itself evident.