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 (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