Unlike the supposed "large Ukrainian support base" for being invaded which has spectacularly failed to manifest itself in the current conflict, we have plenty o

Unlike the supposed "large Ukrainian support base" for being invaded which has spectacularly failed to manifest itself in the current conflict, we have plenty of evidence that Russia is systematically levelling cities within range of its ground-based artillery. It's not "applying Occam's razor" to insist that the reason Russia failed to take out the Ukrainian air force on day one and didn't start levelling cities in earnest until its ground based units were in range is due to Ukrainian enthusiasm for being invaded. The simplest possible explanation for Russia flying few air sorties doesn't involve Ukrainian attitudes towards the Azov battalion, it simply requires looking at their aircraft attrition rate.