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Russian intelligence and air power is still very inadequate (in absolute terms and compared to NATO) as they're unable to both locate the factories for Ukrainian production of drones/weapons and/or deliver the high power munitions necessary to put them out of commission such as glide bombs because of inability to suppress Ukrainian air defenses properly

Sounds like you uncritically swallowed the NATO propaganda line and actually believe the ridiculous 95% interception rate claims from the AFU. Russia is still attacking with huge drone swarms and missile barrages, and successfully striking positions deep within Ukraine.

Don't read it so have no idea how I could swallow it. I consume next to zero western press beyond headlines and scoff every time I see something about Ukraine in the headline, promptly mentally discarding whatever it is I just read.

I said nothing about interception. Fact is Russia does not have air dominance over Ukraine. Ukraine has a lot of western supplied anti-air assets which make it dangerous or impossible for bombing raids with Russia's limited force of heavy bombers. They hit the front lines where they've softened up the anti-air with glide-bombs sure but they don't strike Kiev with bombers or the middle of the country because they can't get close enough. They're relegated to using very expensive and limited production hypersonics and drone swarms. The latter of which cannot take out hardened targets and can't deliver enough payload to take out large targets (like manufacturing) either and is mostly used for clearing trenches, taking out vehicles, hitting anti-air units in forward operating areas. Russia is not the USSR, Ukraine is still operating F-16s and other fighters deeper within their country as well. Despite Russia bravado about how they'd "burn" Russia has taken out only a portion of those delivered. Frankly this is down to intelligence capabilities.

I notice you didn't even address my point about intelligence which is a real problem because you need intelligence for targeting. Look at the zionists, they have excellent intelligence and were able to assassinate Nasrallah and attempt to kill Iran's leadership because they know exactly where their command bunkers are. The US is part of that and has excellent intelligence. A massive satellite spy network much larger than what Russia runs and more modern with more capabilities to watch more places at once. They also have more funding, more people working on analysis. They have deep penetration via hacking, human-int assets (Russia's CIA network was never rolled up like China's because they used an older system that wasn't compromised and even without that there are so many west-brained, west-loving, liberalism and west as absolute saviors on a shining city on a hill types in Russia that they can get a decent amount of cooperation from that angle alone). And massive signals surveillance of course as well. Most of Russia's big hits on say officer gatherings have been luck, things like some fool posting about it online and Russian intelligence noticing as I don't think Russia is even able to remain embedded via hacking in Ukrainian networks as the NSA is successfully repelling them and maybe Russia is reluctant to burn cyber-weapons on it.