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 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