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This brings up two interesting questions:

1: A rocket fired from Russia into Ukraine - with which precision can it hit specific coordinates?

2: What is the radius of destruction of such a rocket?

Depends, they have kalibr cruise missiles that can hit pretty accurately but they are expensive and they don't have many. Other than that, it's mostly the artillery doing most of the punching and they aren't accurate and subject to being arty'd back. They don't have precision munitions for these arty and ukranians do have som M982 Excaliburs which are pretty accurate.

russians have Krasnopol shells.

But they lack the drones required to efficiently employ them - they are laser guided, not GPS.

They are also, well, crap - India tested them and decided they won’t be purchasing due to abysmal performance.

These are guided by specific drones (Orlan?) that Russia is running low on.

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