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 2017) Ukrainian military employed small arms, heavy machine guns, automatic grenade launchers, Zu-23-2 antiaircraft guns, 82 mm mortars, 120 mm mortars and armoured fighting vehicles to pound pro-Russian positions at Frunze, Prishib, Kalinivka, Zholobok, Lozove and Kalynove-Borshchevate. According to the information provided by the ATO press-centre in the evening, as of 6:00 pm pro-Russian forces had opened fire on positions of Ukrainian troops on 3 occasions. Around Donetsk city and Horlivka, small arms fire was reported at Maiorsk, while automatic-launched grenades antitank rockets landed in Avdiivka. In the region of Mariupol, rocket propelled grenades hit Ukrainian positions at Novotroitske. Later in