There's plenty of record of him doing it, though.

so at best you are just inferring

I'm looking at his actions, rather than believing the words of a liar.

Just before the war, he said he was not going to invade. Then he did it anyway. His words are meaningless. His actions are what counts. And he obviously did try to take Kyiv. There were paradrops intended to take Kyiv in hours, even. There was a push by more forces to take Kyiv in days. It all failed because they encountered far more serious resistance than they expected, and it turned out they lacked the supplies for a longer operation, and couldn't get those supplies organised in the face Ukrainian defense specifically targeting Russian supply lines. Eventually they couldn't make any progress and withdrew. Though not before murdering lots of civilians in Boucha.

in 2014 in odesa ukranian nationalists burned protesting students alive. please dont pretend this war is a holywood good vs evil film

This would be the building fire:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/02/ukraine-dead-o...

that started after both sides hurled molotov cocktails at each other?

The world is complicated, yes, but your comment reducing this to "one side burned the other side alive" is disingenuous at best.

the people trapped in the building were either prevented from leaving or beaten up as they tried to leave, while ukranian nationalists chanted "brun! burn!" on the street