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 the target of "Grad" multiple rocket barrages launched from nearby Pervomaisk. Around Donetsk city, where most of the truce violations took place, the militias shelled Kamyanka and Novoselivka with 152 mm howitzers. The separatists executed harassing fire with small arms and rocket propelled grenades on Ukrainian troops in Avdiivka, Pisky, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka and Opytne. According to military spokesman Andriy Lysenko two Ukrainian soldiers were wounded in action in the Donbass region during the last 24 hours. The militias broke the ceasefire on 67 occasions over the same period. By evening, pro-Russian forces had broken the ceasefire 58 times, including