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 wounded in the city of Dzerzhynsk, west of Horlivka, in the Donetsk region. According to the state prosecutor one Ukrainian serviceman was also killed. The casualty reports could not be independently verified. The militias opened fire on Ukrainian troops on 82 occasions during the previous day using small arms, rocket propelled grenades, mortars, tanks, 122 mm guns and 152 mm howitzers, particularly around Donetsk city and in the area south of Artemivsk. In the course of the day, pro-Russian forces launched 67 attacks on Ukrainian positions with small arms, rocket propelled grenades, 120 mm mortars, tanks and 122 mm