Overnight, with the three-day capital truce expired and the American envoys gone, Russia sent cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and drones into Kyiv for nearly five hours, killing at least two people — a toll that kept climbing all morning — and tearing open a five-story residential block in the Solomyanskyi district. * Here is how RT, the Russian state's English-language outlet, headlined the event: "Russia resumes strikes on military targets in Kiev (VIDEOS)." Every word is doing service. "Military targets" — stated flat, in RT's own headline voice, no 'claims,' no 'says Moscow,' no quote marks. The kind of certainty other newsrooms reserve for things they've verified, deployed for things a defense ministry asserted about its own missiles. * And the sourcing for "military targets" is exactly what you'd guess: the Russian Defense Ministry's statement about "a massive strike using ground and air-based precision-guided weapons" against "facilities belonging to Ukraine's military-industrial complex." So the chain of verification runs: the military says the military hit military things, and the military's channel reports the military confirmed it. Airtight. Every link inspected by the same man. * Now the inventory from the ground, as documented by officials, emergency services and reporters actually in Kyiv: a residential block with people trapped inside, a school, a clinic, a civilian market in Odesa, an apartment building in Kharkiv, and the newsroom of the Ukrainian TV channel 'We Are Ukraine' — the second Kyiv newsroom hit in two weeks. If all of that is a military-industrial complex, the term has expanded to cover most of human civilization, which, to be fair, is roughly the Kremlin's operating theory of Ukraine. * The '(VIDEOS)' in the headline deserves its own small monument. Missiles into a capital's residential districts, presented with the same packaging as a dashcam compilation. Come for the geopolitics, stay for the footage. * This morning we dinged AP for headlining the same strikes as "ending pause in attacks" — grammar so passive the missiles seemed to schedule themselves. We stand by it. But it's worth the side-by-side: the Western wire's sin was letting the actor slip out of the sentence. RT's is recasting the act itself — same missiles, same morning, and in RT's telling they only ever touch things that deserve it. One headline under-describes a choice. The other describes a different war entirely, one where schools sign up for the draft.