V-2 rocket offensive began on 8 September 1944, when "Lehr- und Versuchsbatterie No. 444" () launched a single rocket guided by a radio beam directed at Paris. Wreckage of combat V-2s occasionally contained the transponder for velocity and fuel cutoff. The painting of the operational V-2s was mostly a ragged-edged pattern with several variations, but at the end of the war a plain olive green rocket also appeared. During tests, the rocket was painted in a characteristic black-and-white chessboard pattern, which aided in determining if the rocket was spinning around its longitudinal axis. The original German designation of the rocket was "V2",
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