diff --git a/git/remote.py b/git/remote.py
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ class FetchInfo(IterableObj):
        ERROR,
    ) = [1 << x for x in range(8)]

-    _re_fetch_result = re.compile(r"^\s*(.) (\[[\w\s\.$@]+\]|[\w\.$@]+)\s+(.+) -> ([^\s]+)(    \(.*\)?$)?")

    _flag_map: Dict[flagKeyLiteral, int] = {
        "!": ERROR,
@@ -891,7 +891,7 @@ def _get_fetch_info_from_stderr(
            None,
            progress_handler,
            finalizer=None,
-            decode_streams=False,
            kill_after_timeout=kill_after_timeout,
        )

@@ -1068,7 +1068,7 @@ def fetch(
            Git.check_unsafe_options(options=list(kwargs.keys()), unsafe_options=self.unsafe_git_fetch_options)

        proc = self.repo.git.fetch(
-            "--", self, *args, as_process=True, with_stdout=False, universal_newlines=True, v=verbose, **kwargs
        )
        res = self._get_fetch_info_from_stderr(proc, progress, kill_after_timeout=kill_after_timeout)
        if hasattr(self.repo.odb, "update_cache"):
@@ -1122,7 +1122,7 @@ def pull(
            Git.check_unsafe_options(options=list(kwargs.keys()), unsafe_options=self.unsafe_git_pull_options)

        proc = self.repo.git.pull(
-            "--", self, refspec, with_stdout=False, as_process=True, universal_newlines=True, v=True, **kwargs
        )
        res = self._get_fetch_info_from_stderr(proc, progress, kill_after_timeout=kill_after_timeout)
        if hasattr(self.repo.odb, "update_cache"):

diff --git a/git/util.py b/git/util.py
@@ -611,20 +611,6 @@ def _parse_progress_line(self, line: AnyStr) -> None:
            self.error_lines.append(self._cur_line)
            return

-        # Find escape characters and cut them away - regex will not work with
-        # them as they are non-ASCII. As git might expect a tty, it will send them.
-        last_valid_index = None
-        for i, c in enumerate(reversed(line_str)):
-            if ord(c) < 32:
-                # its a slice index
-                last_valid_index = -i - 1
-            # END character was non-ASCII
-        # END for each character in line
-        if last_valid_index is not None:
-            line_str = line_str[:last_valid_index]
-        # END cut away invalid part
-        line_str = line_str.rstrip()
-
        cur_count, max_count = None, None
        match = self.re_op_relative.match(line_str)
        if match is None:

diff --git a/test/test_remote.py b/test/test_remote.py
@@ -1002,6 +1002,22 @@ def test_push_unsafe_options_allowed(self, rw_repo):
                assert tmp_file.exists()
                tmp_file.unlink()


class TestTimeouts(TestBase):
    @with_rw_repo("HEAD", bare=False)