V-weapons vast majority aimed at London; 2,515 reached the city, killing 6,184 civilians and injuring 17,981. Croydon to the south, on the flight path of the V1s suffered severely taking 142 hits. V-2 rocket launching sites were set up by the Germans around The Hague in the Netherlands on 6 September 1944. The first was launched from here against London on 8 September 1944 and took an estimated 5 minutes to fly the 200 miles from the Hague to London where it struck at 6.43pm on 8 September on Chiswick causing thirteen casualties. As the V2 explosions came without warning, the
Timeline of the war in Donbass (July–September 2015) was wounded in the city of Dzerzhynsk, west of Horlivka, in the Donetsk region. According to the state prosecutor one Ukrainian serviceman was also killed. The casualty reports could not be independently verified. The militias opened fire on Ukrainian troops on 82 occasions during the previous day using small arms, rocket propelled grenades, mortars, tanks, 122 mm guns and 152 mm howitzers, particularly around Donetsk city and in the area south of Artemivsk. In the course of the day, pro-Russian forces launched 67 attacks on Ukrainian positions with small arms, rocket propelled grenades, 120 mm mortars, tanks and 122 mm