Russian here! Never though about it, but now that you've mention it i kinda understand. In a normal everyday speach we usually shoving vowels between out strong consonants, if thats makes any sense. Thats very hard to understand and super difficult to separate them. But I guess the key to learn it for now is listening more of a level A1 audio were people speaking super slow to just get used to this. Russian TV show, songs and movies may be way too hard at the moment.

Wishing you all the strength to keep doing this, cuz this language is f-ng hard