Rocket event in Donetsk, Klishchiivka area, Ukraine on Thu 1st February 2024

Over the course of the past day, Ukrainian and Russian forces clashed a total of 58 times. Russian forces carried out two missile strikes, deploying a Kh-59 missile to attack civilian infrastructure in Myrnohrad, Donetsk Oblast. Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, information as of 18:00 on 1 February Details: Russian occupation forces also carried out 66 airstrikes and deployed multiple-launch rocket systems to attack the positions of Ukrainian troops and civilian settlements in Ukraine. On the Kupiansk front, Ukrainian Defence Forces repelled five Russian assaults near Ivanivka (Kharkiv Oblast), where Russian forces attempted to break through the Ukrainian defences. On the Lyman front, Ukrainian forces repelled a Russian assault near Terny (Donetsk Oblast), where aircraft-supported Russian forces continued to make unsuccessful attempts to break through the Ukrainian defences. On the Bakhmut front, Ukrainian forces repelled a Russian assault in the vicinity of Klishchiivka (Donetsk Oblast), where Russian forces made an unsuccessful attempt to improve their tactical positions. On the Avdiivka front, Ukrainian forces repelled 15 Russian assaults in the vicinity of Avdiivka and another five near Pervomaiske and Nevelske (Donetsk Oblast), where Russian forces made unsuccessful attempts to break through the Ukrainian defences. On the Marinka front, Ukrainian Defence Forces are continuing to hold back Russian forces in the vicinity of Krasnohorivka, Heorhiivka and Novomykhailivka (Donetsk Oblast). Aircraft-supported Russian troops made 11 unsuccessful attempts to improve their tactical position in the area. Russian forces did not undertake any assaults on the Shakhtarsk front. Ukrainian forces repelled a Russian assault near Robotyne on the Zaporizhzhia front. Within the area of responsibility of the Odesa Operational Strategic Group of Forces on the Kherson front, Russian forces continue to attempt to push the Ukrainian forces out of their foothold on the left (east) bank of the Dnipro River. Over the course of the day, Russian forces conducted 13 attempts to assault the Ukrainian positions in the area, but were unsuccessful. Quote: "Over the course of the day, Ukraine’s Defence Forces struck 13 clusters of [Russian] military personnel, weapons and equipment and one [Russian] anti-aircraft missile system. Units of Rocket Forces and Artillery struck two clusters of [Russian] military personnel, weapons and equipment, four artillery systems and an electronic warfare system. Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence forces destroyed a guided-missile corvette belonging to the 41st Brigade of Guided-Missile Corvettes of the Russian Black Sea Fleet on the night of 31 January-1 February