You are talking nonsense. The most "real" footage comes directly from the battlefield, as long as you are tuned in to Russian coverage. Anything from Ukraine is a contrivance, as has been exposed repeatedly through this affair. So, they are indeed at war, but Ukraine is on the ropes and is nowhere near ousting the Russians.

To be fair, at the beginning, the Russians said they weren't attacking...but meant the phrase in the sense of "...yet." They did make the first move. The U.S. wasn't fabricating any video; that's just a wish-fulfillment fantasy on your part. Who is making up the forests of flags for the war-fallen, appearing in cemetery after cemetery? Strictly from Ukraine, and not from the government.