This conflict has taken a change on the ground. While a blackout is enforce and disinformation doing the rounds, it's interesting to read that many on the Russian side seem to be coming to the conclusion that all is not as the Kremlin are telling....

The Guardian piece is from their website..
“The war in Ukraine will continue until the complete defeat of Russia,” Igor Girkin, a far-right nationalist, grumbled in a video address to his 430,000 followers on Telegram on Monday. “We have already lost, the rest is just a matter of time.”
Girkin, a former Russian intelligence colonel who became a commander of the pro-Russian separatist forces in 2014, is arguably the most prominent voice within an increasingly loud and angry group of ultra-nationalist and pro-war bloggers who have taken to berating the Kremlin for its failure to achieve its tactical objectives as the fighting in Ukraine has entered its seventh month.

With winter approaching both sides want to push for ground on the battle field and things seem not to be going the way of the Russian forces.