The Oreshnik On Kyiv Is The V-2 On London. The Same Weapon, Eighty-Two Years Apart.

追加: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]On the night of Sunday 24th May, 2026, Russia launched the largest single attack on Kyiv of the entire war.

[00:00:09]90 missiles, 600 drones, 5 hours, 12 dead, 150 injured, 28 residential buildings damaged or destroyed.

[00:00:20]Russia used a hypersonic Kinzhal intermediate-range ballistic missile for the third time against Bila Tserkva, 80 km south of Kyiv.

[00:00:30]82 years ago, between June 1944 and March 1945, Nazi Germany did the same thing to London. The V-1 buzz bomb and the V-2 rocket. Joseph Goebbels named them the Vergeltungswaffen, the vengeance weapons. Approximately 9,000 British civilians killed. The Wehrmacht ran out of fuel and territory on the same schedule it would have run out of them without the V-weapons.

[00:00:58]The V-2 was the world's first long-range ballistic missile.

[00:01:03]It was designed by Wernher von Braun.

[00:01:07]More slave laborers died building it at the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp than were killed by it as a weapon.

[00:01:14]Von Braun was captured by US forces in May 1945, brought to America under Operation Paperclip, and ended his career at NASA leading the team that built the Saturn V that took Apollo to the moon.

[00:01:29]The Kinzhal is the V-2's lineal technological descendant.

[00:01:34]The vengeance weapon does not change the war. It changes what the next war begins with. Time rhymes. New one tomorrow.