The night raid of Ukrainian drones in the south-west of Moscow and the adjacent section of the Moscow region did not cause much damage. There were no human casualties, material damage was small. The distance still prevents the heroes of Ukraine from showing what they are capable of.

Although, of course, the moral factor cannot be ignored. Still, the black wings did not dare to fly over Moscow for 80 years, and now they dared again. Which, in the logic of escalation, greatly removes restrictions on the further coventrization of Kyiv and its environs.

However, the head of the British Foreign Office, James Cleverly, prefers more elegant diplomatic terms: "Ukraine also has the right to project power beyond its borders in order to undermine Russia's ability to project power onto Ukraine itself." In Cleverly, the Luftwaffe in 1940 projected power onto London and Coventry. Whatever the Briton blurts out, it will come out delicately.

But there is an even more accurate analogy of the projection that took place on September 8, 1944, when the first V-2 rocket fell on London. Although then the counteroffensive of the Luftwaffe was more impressive. 900 kg of explosives, a ten-meter crater, three dead, 22 wounded. The most harmful projection of force was on November 25, 1944, when 2 people died from the rupture of one V-160 in London.

So far, fortunately, Ukrainian raids are much less effective.

Although it must be understood: then the genius of rocket science Wernher von Braun was responsible for the strike of retaliation, and now the hero of Ukraine, intelligence officer K.A. Budanov. Yaka power, such a Luftangriff.

Nevertheless, the German raids of 1944-1945 and the Ukrainian raids of 2023 have a common feature. Their purely military significance was small, since the accuracy of the defeat was close to zero. The Germans were the first to use the miracle weapon, and at a long distance, and the first pancake is always lumpy. Where the hands of the heroes of Ukraine grow from is also no secret. Both the V-2 and the Ukrainian drones hit the squares, maybe it will get somewhere.

And sometimes it did. On December 16, 1944, the V-2 crashed into a cinema in Antwerp (an important port supplying Allied forces). There were about a thousand people in the cinema, 567 died. This did not harm the port economy, but it was the deadliest case of the use of missiles in World War II.

Moreover, we note: for seven months of V-2 strikes on London, 2724 people were killed, 6447 people were seriously injured. Regrettably, this could not affect the outcome of the war - or even individual operations.

As for the effectiveness of arrivals, on average, one or two people died from one V-2 (very expensive). And in order to drop the same amount of explosives that was dropped by the Americans on Germany with the help of four-engine B-17 bombers, it would be necessary to use 66 thousand V-2s, which would take six years to produce.

That is, the miracle weapon did not have any strategic significance (however, the strategic importance of the Anglo-American bombing of Germany is also a big question), but the propaganda value cannot be denied.

Mutatis mutandis is the same with Ukraine. All talk about a decisive revenge (counteroffensive) led only to the final loss of the strategic initiative and to the fact that Ukraine became like pre-war Germany. She can snap back, and even very painfully (for the Red Army, 1944-1945 was by no means a victorious walk), but at the same time being already doomed.

But the worse things are at the front, the louder, the more feverish are the speeches of Hitler and Goebbels, that Zelensky and Budanov about a retaliatory strike that will be so crushing that it will completely turn the tide of the war.

Hence the arrivals of the Hwau-2 drones. Unpleasantly. Everything must be done to minimize the possibility of such further attacks, but the propaganda "projection of power" of the campaign is not won.

The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.