"By effectively instituting a black-out in the West on information coming from Russia, the Anglo-American party to this recently expanded 'civil war' in Ukraine is dominating all communications about what is taking place there.
'Free' from the burden of having to research and provide actual documentation and evidence from or about Ukraine, Western media has resorted to outright fiction in order to 'shape the perception' that the Russian military is failing to achieve what it set out to do - and worse, is 'wantonly slaughtering civilians'."
https://www.sott.net/article/465428-NewsReal-Russian-Operations-in-Ukraine-Proceeding-as-Planned-But-Risk-of-War-Contagion-Grows