An outside perspective which seems sensible to me:
https://www.theamericanconservative....ukrainian-war/
The Ukraine leadership has done a superb job mobilizing western international opinion and quashing dissent, internally as well as externally.
To illustrate,
Victoria Spartz, the one person in Congress who is Ukrainian born and personally familiar with the situation, has been efficiently marginalized,
because her criticism of the Ukraine management were too much for Kiev.
Imho the absence of critical monitoring and auditing was a major factor in the failure of the US Afghan mission, by the evidence it is being repeated in spades in Ukraine