We've heard for two years from sources here taken directly from mainstream media sources(balanced media outlets as you call them) that Ukraine have been winning, Russia losing over 500,000 troops(Ukraine only losing 40,000) while running out of missiles, constant "game changers" in the form of Abrams, Leopards, Bradley's, F16's, etc.
Now all that reporting came from your so called "balanced media outlets", you reckon based on the facts on the ground in Ukraine it was all made up BS so that Western countries would keep funneling cash and weapons to a US proxy whose leadership and its controllers the US neocons were happy to see its Christian soldiers killed en mass ?