Is Russia LOSING Donbas? Pro-Putin war reporter says their troops ‘can’t push out Ukrainian forces’

Russia is struggling to make significant military gains in Ukraine’s Donbas region because it is fighting Kyiv’s forces one-on-one, a pro-Moscow reporter has said.

War correspondent and Putin propagandist Aleksandr Sladkov made a rare admission of Russia’s military struggles in Ukraine, speaking in a video posted to social media late on Monday.

He said that Vladimir Putin’s so-called special military operation was ‘shamefully indecisive’, that Russian troops ‘can’t push out Ukrainian forces’, and that Moscow’s armies are ‘making a feat out of something that should be routine’.

Sladkov, a journalist for Russia’s state-run Russia-1 TV channel, has in the past been deployed with Putin’s forces to make pro-Kremlin military propaganda.

The video showing Sladkov speaking negatively about…