but I see all this good news from the YouTube person, yet Ukraine is still losing ground and the Biden administration is starting to lose hope. Who is right and who is wrong?

It's over-the-top and always cheerleading for the Ukraine side. He's not a reporter -- he's an anti-Putin podcaster.

Propaganda exists on both sides of the war; however, both The Russian Dude and Reporting from Ukraine (RFU) frequently refer to the reports from the Institute for the Study of War. Admittedly, The Russian Dude has more "flare" than the RFU style, but his viewpoint as a Russian who was in their army keeps it interesting. His reports were also available when RFU was down when the narrator was ill in January.

believe this person? I want Ukraine to trounce Russia and Putin to be made irrelevant.

While some of the content of the Russian Dude is OTT, the reports do closely track with the more serious sources and his blogs appeared when other video sources were not available such as Reporting from Ukraine. The Russian Dude's blogs are also about 5-10 minutes briefer than several other blogs and he provides social and political content that is directly from Russia. I started to post the blog as a contrast to the Reporting from Ukraine blog.