A cliche around here, regarding the war for military dominance over Ukrainian territory, is "no war before this one, has been quite this foggy" i.e. more impossible to know less about, more opaque.
I'd beg (or at least propose) to differ: never before has a war been so micro-covered. I'm not just talking about the Pentagon's view, fat pipe shared with Ukes and Russkies, but the view of householders subscribing to open source channels.
If you want a fairly fat pipe, with updates almost in real time, with geolocated video, it's all out there, and sourced from points near the action.
None of which is to say you're unfree to immerse yourself in propaganda. Go for it, pig out if that's your genre. If you don't know how to distinguish propaganda in its many flavors, high school is your friend.
In pointing to high school, I'm not being condescending. Remember teenagers. They pop up in the adult world and many of them find that the adult world is a mess, a wasteland as much as theirs. This discovery is somewhat exhilarating and begets an egalitarian willingness to step up to the plate among some, but it also engenders disillusionment and cynicism.
A great way to feed disillusionment and cynicism, and to develop one's immune system, is to study old programming, meaning persuasive media designed to inculcate a way of looking that is currently not in vogue. Visit museums of propaganda, something I did as a kid growing up in post-WW2 Europe.
Tour all the ways humans have persuaded themselves to believe any amount of goofy garbage. Then look more deeply into what "persuasion" is all about, as it borders on "coercive" so much of the time. People internalize bullies as often as they encounter them in the wild, it sometimes seems. An authoritarian is often some voice in your head, too sure about everything.
The German language philosopher Peter Sloterdijk writes a lot about immune systems and how these hyper-dimensional membranes between bubbles (as in media bubbles, echo chambers, subcultures) become more or less permeable and/or subject to entropic memes.
Marcuse, a critic of capitalism, always marveled at the capitalist system's ability to transform apparently undermining materials into cute knickknacks, subversive lyrics into commercial jingles. I'd argue this ability to trivialize and de-dimensionalize (to recontextualize and render harmless) is intrinsic to any effective counterintelligence program.
