Russia – Ukraine war updates as of August 2, 2024

Russia – Ukraine war latest updates from the General Staff of Ukraine as of August 2, 2024.

891 day of the russian large-scale invasion and 3,810 day of the russia’s war against Ukraine begins.

Operational information as of 08:00 a.m. August 2, 2024 regarding the Russian invasion.

Last day, 127 combat clashes were recorded along the entire front. A third of them are in the Pokrovsky direction.

Yesterday, in total, the Russian aggressor launched five missile (six rockets), 63 airstrikes (including 61 KAB) and 1,187 kamikaze drone strikes at the positions of our troops and populated areas, carried out 4,873 attacks on the positions of our troops and populated areas, 112 of them – from RSZV.

The areas of Orlivka, Sumy Region, Vovchansk, Vesele, Mali Prohody, Liptsi, Neskuchne, Novoosynove, Petropavlivka, Boguslavka, Kharkiv region were hit by the russian airstrikes; Chasiv Yar, Kostyantynivka, Zorya, Diliyivka, Toretsk, Oleksandropil, Timofiivka, Ivanivka, Novotroitske, Grodivka, Kurakhove, Vodyane, Bogoyavlenka, Novodonetske, Neskuchne of the Donetsk region; Gulyaipole, Lobkove and Pyatikhatki in Zaporizhzhia and Mykolaivka and Kozatske in the Kherson region.

Yesterday, aviation and missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces struck four control points, an air defense facility, a radar station and two areas of concentration of enemy personnel.

In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy continued active operations, a total of five combat clashes took place. The fighting took place in the areas of the settlements of Vovchansk and Tyche.

In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy attacked the positions of our units seven times. The main efforts of the invaders were made in Pischany and Stelmakhivka districts.

In the Lyman direction, our troops repelled six attacks by the occupiers near Makiivka and Torsky.

The Defense Forces also repulsed 11 assaults in the Siverskyi direction, near Ivanodaryivka, Verkhnyokamyanskyi, Spirnyi, Vyimka, and Pereizny.

In the Kramatorsk direction, our soldiers stopped six enemy attempts to break through our defenses in the areas of Chasiv Yar, Klishchiivka, Andriivka, and towards Hryhorivka, Donetsk region.

In the Toretsk direction, with the support of aviation, the enemy carried out 24 attacks near the settlements of Severnye, Zalizne, Toretsk and New York.

In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders repelled 53 assault and offensive actions. The enemy concentrated its efforts in the areas of Novooleksandrivka and Zhelany, where it carried out eight and 18 attacks, respectively. In addition, the attempts of the occupiers to advance were stopped near Panteleimonivka, Vozdvizhenka, Svyridonivka, Novoselivka Pershoya, Yasnobrodivka, and Kalynyvka of the Donetsk region.

In the Kurakhiv direction, the Defense Forces continue to hold back the enemy in the areas of Krasnohorivka, Paraskoviivka and Kostyantynivka settlements, where the enemy tried seven times to break through the defenses of our troops.

In the Vremivsk direction, the aggressor carried out two assaults on our positions near Vodyanyi, Donetsk region.

There were also two enemy attacks in the Orihiv direction, in the direction of Malaya Tokmachka.

In the Dnieper direction, our defenders firmly stopped the occupiers’ attempt to advance on the left bank of the Dnipro River.

In the Volyn and Poliske directions, the operational situation has not changed significantly. There were no signs of the formation of offensive groups of invaders.

On the border with the Chernihiv and Sumy regions, the enemy maintains a military presence, shelling populated areas from the territory of the Russian Federation, conducting sabotage and reconnaissance activities.

Our soldiers continue to inflict significant losses in manpower and equipment on the occupying forces, exhausting the enemy along the entire line of battle and in its rear.

Yes, last day the total losses of the Russian invaders amounted to 1,100 russian soldiers. Our soldiers also destroyed three tanks, eight armored combat vehicles, 42 artillery systems, two anti-aircraft guns, 37 operational-tactical UAVs, 56 vehicles and six units of special equipment.

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