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 (January–March 2015) Ukrainian troops overnight firing automatic weapons, rocket propelled grenades and mortars. One civilian was killed by mortar fire at Shyrokyne. In the northern front, fresh fighting was reported around Stanitsya Luhanska, where the rebels fired machine guns and rocket propelled grenades. Exchanges of machine gun fire were also reported at Krimsky, and mortar or artillery rounds landed in Troitske. A gas pipeline was damaged by rocket propelled grenades near the village of Zolote. By evening, pro-Russian troops had opened fire on 26 occasions on Ukrainian positions using small arms, rocket propelled grenades and mortars. Heavy fighting erupted in Shyrokyne at