For the Ukrainian war cheerleader BBC, this is a very GLOOMY REPORT. Something’s up, IMHO.
That is a curious source for this gloom.
But as has been noted before, if Zelensky were to contact Lavrov and inform him of total surrender, have his troops lay down their arms, have the Russian Army enter Kiev and take over all administration of the country, and then withdraw some troops from Donbas northward as no longer needed . . . this will get reported like so:
After years of anguish and hard fighting, the Russians are finally withdrawing invading troops that were part of their full scale invasion back to Russia. The quiet on the battlefields is a great victory for NATO and all who supplied arms to drive those troops out.
Morale is bad because I would guess people there just want this crap over and for their families to not get dragged into the front to be cannon fodder for globalists. The people who do the dying don’t get any of the big bucks grift and they can’t even vote to throw out Zelensky.