Tactical victory.
Strategic victory.
Logistic interruption.
Manoeuvre victory.
Morale overwhelm.
Roughly speaking.
Propaganda is not on the list.
In 2016 they tried to win without looking bad, but in 2020 they just cheated. In Vietnam they tried to win seemingly-fairly, but it turned out they needed to cheat, so they did. They would love to cheat Russia, but they don't have a fortified base behind enemy lines, so they can't.
The 'propaganda' victory only lets the opposing army know where they need to attack to damage morale. The propaganda tells you what they consider valuable and needs defense, but propaganda doesn't constitute defence, so you can just attack it.
A real war is a unique opportunity to unmistakably falsify political statements. The propaganda tells the opposing army what operations would be most damaging to the propagandists' pride.
Not to mention, to be even remotely believable, propaganda has to compromise opsec. The propaganda not only tells the enemy what to attack, it tells them where the valuable pain point happens to be.
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