A Russian media claims:

"Putin stopped receiving bad news reports, especially about the war, because of his "extremely irritated" reaction to those reports.

According to an insider familiar with the situation, Putin reacted to reports containing the actual situation in the following manner: he irritatedly told the reporter that he [reporter] was currently under the influence of "Western propaganda" and was "thickening the clouds" in its wake, while Putin himself had more reliable information from other sources which did not coincide with the information provided by the rapporteurs. The journalist then would be dropped out of the list of people who have access to the Russian president for a long time. But those who reported only successes had permanent access, and defeats and failures were reduced to petty nuisances of no significance.

The source says that at this point Putin simply stopped receiving "bad news" because the president does not want to hear it."