Russia is also a tightly controlled media space as well as closed State, and it acts as so during its military operations. The lack of substantial media footage available in the mainstream for use in the West is indicative of this fact. Russia won’t show the bulk of its frontlines and it won’t let you see its efforts to strengthen these.
The scant footage available shows individual soldiers dying by brutal wounds. There’s none of the proud wave of soldiers surging into Ukraine or units camping together to sit out a firefight. This is the Putin era of total lockdown. He fears the scrutiny of public media efforts here and looks to deny sights to replace seeing with believing his narrative.