Because if the only question you're asking is "who's winning?", it would be hard to lie or cover up the fact that you lost. After it's over who won will be pretty clear.

There's a youtube channel that shows up in my reccomended. Every week they have a new video that has titles like "The war is over for russia, ukraine gets huge advantage" and the other day was "North korea surrenders to ukraine, war end in sight."

But this has been every week since about a week after the war started.

And I'm sure there's some truth in their videos. The problem is, they take the truth, at a 3, and amplify it to an 11 at which point it's no longer pure truth.

You can't keep saying that every week ukraine did the thing that ends the war, and then be 3 years into saying that on a weekly basis.

And then I've seen how russia will claim ukraine started the war, and how they would never bomb schools and childrens hospitals. But that's just a straight up lie, because they've done both those thingd, multiple times, and were the aggressors in the war.

I have no idea who's winning because of both sides propaganda. So at this point, it's more like you find out news 3 months after the fact, because it's the story that still stands. Like right now, I'm finally sure that an invasion of russia mainland actually happened, and that was back in september. I'm just now realizing that was real.