Doesn't look like it [0].
Even the original article says: "“There are very few of our people there. Previous days with all the shelling - there was almost no response, no (Russian) military. We were left on our own,” the unnamed woman said."
"that has no basis in reality"
Does it? Deliberately shelling a town and killing civilians together with 'suggestions' of neo-Nazi from Azov look like a basis to me.
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/12/world/europe/russia-war-b...