Agreed 100% that this is absolutely just from russian and like very pro russian sources. The only reason why I give it any credit is that it fits with the reality on the ground. If russia was pushing and got actually stalled, I'd have expected to see a lot more air raids and shelling. Yesterday was weirdly calm, even when it comes to airstrikes, bombings etc. Not exactly the signs of a desperate push

My interpretation is they're pushing and (sadly) making progress, though much slower than they'd like.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russia-ukraine...

Judging by the many videos of interrogations of Russian POWs, many of them are just kids who barely know where they are, are unmotivated and poorly equipped. Hardly a professional and well-equipped army. There are also indications of logistical challenges (videos of Russian military vehicles running out of fuel, that sort of thing).

Running out of fuel is pretty common in military vehicles as the fuel gauges are at best reliable to half a tank.

Drivers are supposed to track how far they have driven, but if its driven by multiple people and someone forgets to log distance or the vehicle is forced to idle for a long time the distance can be off.

Also a broken fuel gauge will not mark the vehicle as a casualty. Its not critical equipment as your supposed to be tracking fuel usage as a driver.

The main problem (?) here is why Russian forces totally forgot how to move in a convoy.

They constantly lose their mates, move in a line like they are on a parade, move without deployed AA.

This is beyond "unmotivated and poorly equipped", this is Africa/Middle East levels of incompetency.

There is something very, very fishy going there.

is the adviser to the President of Ukraine seems to be very pro russian to you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30478794

Again, the source that your other comment cites is a Kremlin propaganda outlet. There's little reason to trust it to accurately represent Ukraine government's position on anything related to this war.

https://www.stopfake.org/en/strana-ua-or-strana-ru-how-a-san...

Search your «facts» in this little collection of Russian fakes with 13000+ items: https://euvsdisinfo.eu/disinformation-cases/

Sorry, I'm a noob in HN interface and didn't find how to answer your original comments -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30478874

> This "evidently Ukrainian site" is a Kremlin propaganda outlet

I'm not going reasoning here about how propagandistic is stopfake itself, because, as I already said, if you only wanted, you could easily find some information about this s*ithole for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t05R_cPVjtU

but I ask you:

did you find any confirmation or refutation of my words?

is the current advisor of the president of Ukraine any pro russian?

> An important caveat is that this is according to Russia.

if you really wanted to, you could easily find an article on the evidently Ukrainian site, stated that "Advisor to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Oleksiy Orestovich in a comment to the Country confirmed that Ukraine refused to negotiate with Russia." (thanks to google translate)

https://strana.today/news/379089-ukraina-otkazalas-ot-pereho...

In this time it is really easy to wash brains and make fake news, but if you make a little effort and use different sources, you can always find the truth, and I encourage everyone to do so, use Telegram public channels, contact people from the "other side", always double check mass media and don't be ignorant.

> an article on the evidently Ukrainian site

This "evidently Ukrainian site" is a Kremlin propaganda outlet:

https://www.stopfake.org/en/strana-ua-or-strana-ru-how-a-san...

«Strana» (страна, country) is a Russian word. The Ukrainian word is «kraina» (країна).

Strana is a pro-Russian website.