They are prostitutes, not analysts; they will say whatever they're being paid to say.
This is Russia we're talking about, they could turn Ukraine and their shitty US sponsored Nazi army into a pile of ashes in a millisecond if that was their goal.
Of course, and instead they're sacrificing most of their newly modernized T-72 Obr. 2016, Su-35, Su-34 and a lot of VDV folks in a “feint” while making zero progress in the Donbas (their “actual goal”®) in the meantime…
I've always found the US war propaganda really cringe, but the Russian one don't even try to make a coherent story. Zero fuck given.
This is Russia we're talking about, they could turn Ukraine and their shitty US sponsored Nazi army into a pile of ashes in a millisecond if that was their goal.