As darkness fell on Moscow late Monday night eight drones made their way toward Russia's capital.
They were finally spotted as they reached the ritzy suburbs housing many of Russia's affluent oligarchs.
Five were shot down and three others were jammed to the point that they veered off course.
Still, it was too late.
The debris from the drones both wayward and destroyed crashed into high-rises and fell onto roads below. And explosions and plumes of smoke alarmed the city's sleepy citizens.
And really, more than the damage, that was the point.
While no one was killed and no military assets were neutralized, the Moscow drone attacks accomplished their mission.
They showed Ukraine is capable of piercing Russia's border defenses and getting all the way to the capital.
They let Russia's citizens and politicians know that an already unpopular war is now endangering their lives.
And they will likely draw air defense resources away from the conflict's frontlines in Ukraine, where a new counteroffensive (one that makes use of Western tanks and tactical vehicles) is imminent.
To that last point, Moscow hasn't been the only target of recent Ukrainian offensives.
On Tuesday, drones attacked two oil refineries roughly 50 miles from Russia's Black Sea oil export terminals. And last week, they damaged several buildings in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar (near Crimea).
So it seems like Ukraine is definitely laying the groundwork for a counteroffensive that has been months in the making.
And drone warfare has been a big part of that just as it's been a huge part of Ukraine's defense to this point.
No doubt, drones have been instrumental in Ukraine's resistance effort. They do everything from reconnaissance to targeting to deploying munitions.
As Ivan Ukraintsev, whose Starlife charity purchases and donates drones to the war effort, recently told Al Jazeera:
"If we [Ukraine] had enough drones, we could end this war in two months."