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The video shows 2 missile hits. The 2nd missile comes in at ~0:10.
Let's not accept anything not first confirmed and then reported.
It's seeming more and more likely that the Claims about the Russian Frigate Admiral Makarov being stuck by Ukrainian Anti-Ship Missiles is True....
This did not age well. It's better to wait.
 
Let's not accept anything not first confirmed and then reported.

This did not age well. It's better to wait.

That happens when parts of a message are deliberately removed and sentences taken out of context. I copy whole message for you, with sentence in bold suggesting exactly, that we still need to wait for confirmation.

 
New pictures of old incident. Reportedly, pictures of the ship struck by MLRS off Odessa coast on March 7.

Russian officials denied that one of its warships was damaged, but new photos confirm that the corvette received numerous shrapnel damage consistent with multiple rocket launchers.
 
Regarding other nations pressuring Ukraine to concede territory for peace:

Ukrainians and some of their European neighbors have been afraid that Western powers might press for territorial concessions for the sake of peace.

Scholz reiterated that there is no such intent to dictate anything to Ukrainians, and that only they "can decide what is right in terms of an agreement on a peace which we are unfortunately very, very far away from."

[...]

"We want the atrocities to stop and we want peace," Draghi said. "But Ukraine must defend itself, and it will be Ukraine that chooses the peace it wants."



... and ...


PARIS, June 16 (Reuters) - Ukraine alone should decide whether or not to accept any territorial concessions towards Russia in view of ending the war, French President Emmanuel Macron told TF1 television in an interview as he visited Kyiv.

"This is up to Ukraine to decide," Macron said when asked what concessions, including on its territory, Ukraine should accept, adding: "I think it is our duty to stand by our values, by international law and thus by Ukraine."



... and:


WASHINGTON. June 1 (Interfax) - The United States will not pressure Ukraine to make any territorial concessions to Russia, U.S. President Joe Biden said.

"My principle throughout this crisis has been 'Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine'. I will not pressure the Ukrainian government - in private or public - to make any territorial concessions. It would be wrong and contrary to well-settled principles to do so," Biden said in an article published by the New York Times.



So it would seem that for the time being Western arms shipments will not be tied to any demands for Ukraine accepting partial dismemberment.
 
Hopefully, they will be carried by UAVs in future.
 
Probably, the first disclosure of the Ukraine's losses in vehicles and artillery.
"As of today, we have approximately 30 to 40, sometimes up to 50 percent of losses of equipment as a result of active combat. So, we have lost approximately 50 percent. … Approximately 1,300 infantry fighting vehicles have been lost, 400 tanks, 700 artillery systems."
About maintenance and repair:
"The equipment doesn't stop being operational because it's used up. It stops being operational because of constant artillery shelling...
For example, the M777 artillery systems are really prone to being damaged by enemy artillery. For every battery of M777, there are six pieces.
After every artillery contact, we have to take two artillery pieces and take them back to the rear to maintain them because some of the subsystems are damaged by shrapnel. This happens every day."

 

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