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The US administration's August 8 deadline to Russia came and went.  Russia continues its war unabated.  
The fact that Russia targeted two missiles within a few hundred meters of British and EU buildings in Kyiv would seem to indicate that Russian attacks against civilians is not due to a lack of precision.

Perhaps the US isn't playing with a full deck.
EDIT: I much later saw Trump's hot mic comment to the French President after the Putin meeting, which I think gives insight into how Putin is trumping him..

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Interesting if unfortunate video. Russian UAV video feed of a Ukrainian Neptune missile TEL (this was their indigenously designed and manufactured missile that destroyed the Russian Cruiser Moskva earlier in the war, and has subsequently been further developed for a land attack role, possible in an updated and longer range version).

Unfortunately Russia was able to observe and quickly target with an Iskander ballistic missile, which did not directly hit the launcher, but seems to have heen close enough that we can see a secondary effect of one of the Neptune rockets firing off the back of the TEL.

https://x.com/John_A_Ridge/status/1961136371717783755

Good- Ukraine has indigenous long range strike capability that they are continuing to use.

Bad- Russia, at least in this case, has a rapid enough ISR cycle they can target and destroy Ukraine's mobile TELs.

Since the drone was watching the launcher before the first-shown missile launch, we can't know how it acquired that position, but it wasn't from the first-shown launch.  So the seemingly rapid response is perhaps misleading.

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The US administration's August 8 deadline to Russia came and went.  Russia continues its war unabated.  
The fact that Russia targeted two missiles within a few hundred meters of British and EU buildings in Kyiv would seem to indicate that Russian attacks against civilians is not due to a lack of precision.

Perhaps the US isn't playing with a full deck.
EDIT: I much later saw Trump's hot mic comment to the French President after the Putin meeting, which I think gives insight into how Putin is trumping him..

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Interesting if unfortunate video. Russian UAV video feed of a Ukrainian Neptune missile TEL (this was their indigenously designed and manufactured missile that destroyed the Russian Cruiser Moskva earlier in the war, and has subsequently been further developed for a land attack role, possible in an updated and longer range version).

Unfortunately Russia was able to observe and quickly target with an Iskander ballistic missile, which did not directly hit the launcher, but seems to have heen close enough that we can see a secondary effect of one of the Neptune rockets firing off the back of the TEL.

https://x.com/John_A_Ridge/status/1961136371717783755

Good- Ukraine has indigenous long range strike capability that they are continuing to use.

Bad- Russia, at least in this case, has a rapid enough ISR cycle they can target and destroy Ukraine's mobile TELs.

Since the drone was watching the launcher before the first-shown missile launch, we can't know how it acquired that position, but it wasn't from the first-shown launch.  So the seemingly rapid response is perhaps misleading.