No, I can't read his mind. . It's not propaganda that he hasn't taken Kiev, that Ukraine just struck a target in Russia (gas depot), that Russia's supply lines are not adequate, etc. Any way you cut it, it's a failure when the country you are invading starts blowing shit up in your country.You can read his mind? Our propaganda tells it like it is?
Putin either realizes these things or he doesn't. With how much information is available on the modern battlefield he'd have to be willfully ignorant and borderline retarded not to be aware of these things. The other option is he is aware and just doesn't publicly acknowledge it instead using his iron grasp of national media to choke off bad news. I think the second option is far more likely.