However, none of what you have offered counters my claim that Russia came in soft at the beginning of this "Special Operation".
You are so busy trying to deflect and cover up for the Russians that you are making a fool of yourself. Note that you complained a couple of posts ago that the image I showed of destruction from Russian shelling was from near Kyiv, which was where there was fighting in the early days of the war.
So was destroying Bucha and Irpin "coming in soft"?
And then you complain that there were not necessarily many Russian speaking people there, and it wasn't from the Donbass. Given a few images from the Donbass now you say there is "no context". But the very article from the Daily Mail has pictures of Ukrainian firemen trying to put out a burning house caused by Russian shelling.
There are literally thousands of still images of destroyed houses as a result of Russian shelling in the Donbass. There are also hundreds of videos of active shelling in cities, towns, and villages in the Donbass. And you are trying to argue that all of that shelling was "friendly fire".
Do you realize how stupid that is? Do you really think that anyone but you would believe that all the damage done in places where the Russians are attacking Ukrainian defenders was a result of "friendly fire"?
Are you sure you haven't had a stroke or something?