You really are uninformed. Or maybe just blind.
Russian artillery helping clean the kitchen floor of some Russian speaking person's apartment: 
Just a quick Russian carpet cleaning for these people's houses: 
The Russians were just helping this woman clean up the dishes: 
The reason Russia went in so softly in the beginning was because they did not want to do a lot of of damage to the infrastructure, Had that been their intent, they would have done what we did in Iraq, with our shock & awe campaign to begin that war.
Putin has tried for years to avoid actually invading, but that is not what the U.S. wanted. They wanted a proxy war using Ukraine as fodder to goad Putin into invading. Had invading been their goal, they would not have waited 8 years to invade Ukraine.