Seems to be a pandemic of turning propaganda machines up to 11.

I don't know if it is a change in the news or my awareness but news websites feel increasingly like opinion blogs than something that might inform.

sorry, what is wrong with NATO as "masters"? it is the truth: you orchestrated the coup in 2014, you are responsible for the war in Donbass since then (ukraine did not implement Minsk agrrements encouraged by you), and without your arms, sanctions and intelligence, and worldwide antirussian propaganda ukraine would not last. Ukraine is not an independent state, though certainly this is what you would like its people to think (the truth is, of course, that you want to get Russia to bleed, the rest is hypocrisy).

I think you are taking this up with the wrong person. I largely oppose eastward expansion of NATO and prefer Ukraine become an independent and neutral state, to the degree that the west has input on the issue.