I never demanded sources, because you’re right, it’s incredibly easy to produce a shitty source. They’re mostly useful for uncontroversial things where there’s a lot of subject matter experts with no real stake in the exact answers.
If you actually wanted to convince me Russia wasn’t trying to conquer Ukraine, I guess you’d have to convince me I don’t remember the winter of '22 right. I saw the shit happen, and I can read behind the lines well enough to know that when someone launches a full-scale invasion of a smaller neighbor starting with their capital, they mean to put it under their control, one way or another.