Does Putin know how badly the war is going?

No one really knows but it's reported Vladimir Putin spends his time locked away in a deep bunker while the war he started rages in Ukraine. So the big question is: is anyone telling him the truth about the disastrous logistics problems suffered by the invasion army, the pathetic failure to achieve air superiority, the loss of maybe 10,000 Russian soldiers, the killing of up to 15 senior commanders and the sheer heroism of the Ukrainian fighters? Are his closest officials daring to tell him all the things that have gone wrong? All we hear from Putin is that everything is going according to his grand plan but like all the other lies he has uttered before and since the invasion began, the whole world knows that is not the case. In fact quite the reverse. And now it seems Sergey Shoigu, the concrete-faced defence minister, has vanished from sight. Has he been banished for the failures or is he feeling ill after a series of roastings from his commander-in-chief? Putin must be spitting mad if he HAS been told the truth about his war but the chances are he has been given a rosy picture of the progresss. I can't imagine Putin is watching CNN every day, like Saddam Hussein did in the 1991 Gulf War. So all he is getting is a skewed version of what is going on in Ukraine. In fact the same sort of propaganda bilge the Russian people are watching on state television every day. Saddam Hussein ended up in a deep hole in the ground after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Let us hope that Putin eventually emerges from his hole in the ground, defeated and abandoned by his KGB cohorts.