Someone, please tell me how that can improve the situation?
One less missile to **** up the world.
Other than that, not much.
If the Russians had their program going along, and had scheduled a launch some months ago for this month, how is their adhering to their schedule necessarily related to what is up with the Ukraine?
Easy to cancel a test if needs be, isn't it? A test firing doesn't really help, if one subscribes to reality.
Not hard to reschedule either, given that Sov.., err, Russian, rocket forces are certainly on constant standby.