The problem is both sides are giant liars spreading propaganda like cheese on the world's biggest pizza. You can't really trust either side and since independent journalists get conveniently all killed if they get near, it's nearly impossible to know what is happening. Unlike the covid thing, this is happening in another country and we can't easily get our people in there to really check and any info that comes out of there could easily be fake. Even video is easily faked now, we can't even be sure Zelenskyy is not doing all his video from his home in Miami. My best guess going on common sense is that both sides have done some bad stuff and false flags and are spewing propaganda out their butts like they ate rotten spam for 3 days straight, because that's how govts universally operate. But beyond that, I don't feel confident in much, not even in who is winning or losing and why or which tanks belong to whom.