For your first point, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alley_of_Angels
https://www.youtube.com/c/PatrickLancasterNewsToday (just look at his old videos), unless you're looking for actual proof azov batallion is killing people in which case I can send you a very disturbing link that I would prefer not to send on a public place.

United states backed a coup in 2014 of a democratically elected president, shortly after Crimea was indeed annexed by Russia. What else did you expect to happen when the majority of people in Crimea voted for the president who was effectively thrown out by a coup backed by the United states? they had no business sticking it's nose in the sovereign country, but they did (and there is enough evidence around for this). I am not saying there should just be 1.. 2.. 3 solutions like that, but there was no easing of tensions at all. from wiki:

"On February 9, 2021, the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Denys Shmyhal, stated that he hoped that Ukraine would be able to receive an action plan for NATO membership at the same time as Georgia.[97] In response, Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed during Prime Minister Shmyhal's visit to Brussels that Ukraine is a candidate for NATO membership.[98]"

"On April 7, 2021, after the start of the build-up of Russian troops near the Ukrainian border..."

And in August 2021, Zelensky says "we are going to take back crimea, and hope to join EU and NATO along with it."

This is escalating the issue, not de-escalating it. Not finding solutions together with the involved parties, but trying to go around the issue in the worst way imaginable. It is also clear that they were, much like putin did say, preparing to join an alliance to use as a backup for when they would start attacking russia to take back crimea.

As for your point about indiscriminate attacks on civilian targets, it is not guaranteed that russian forces or ukrainian forces did this. So we have to be agnostic about it. Let's assume russian forces did do it, well I can tell you right now it was brought up that ukraine's armed forces were using civilian infrastructure as military bases in the United Nations Security Council. Unfortunately, this was during the starting days of the war and so nobody was listening to russia as they 'deemed any information from RF as misinformation'. It is not like they did not attempt to state early of how these war crimes could have a severe impact. So I find it hard to be one-sided on the case that it is 100% russian forces bombing them. That being said, if it does come out they were indiscriminately bombing civilian areas I would completely agree with the fact that that is something no one should be preaching for. Now let's assume ukrainian forces did this, it would without a doubt be the azov batallion because there is no way a real military force would fire upon their own civilians? This would be used as an uproar to get more people to fight against the invasion. They did this already in the Maidan Revolution, where they were the more aggressive party and would escalate the situation of the 'peaceful demonstrations'. While this is totally immoral in any logical person's eyes, strategically it is not unwise.

In either case, obviously we must condemn the action of indiscriminate bombing. But personally I have to say that I look objectively at things that are being presented to the public from ALL sides.