General Staff: last day there were 179 combat clashes at the front

179 combat clashes were recorded at the front during the past 24 hours, most of them in the Pokrovsky and Gulyaipil directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in the morning briefing on February 2.

“In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders stopped 41 assault and offensive actions of the aggressor in the areas of the settlements of Rodynske, Pokrovsk, Udachne, Novopidgorodnye, Shevchenko, Zatyshok, Myrnograd, Kotlyne, Dachne, Filia and in the direction of Bilytskyi, Dorozhnyi, Novopavlivka, Vilnoi and Sergiivka… In the Gulyaipilsk direction, the enemy tried to advance on the positions of our defenders 32 times, in the area Gulyaipol and in the direction of Staroukrainka, Varvarivka, Zeleny, Sviatpetrivka and Zaliznychny,” the message reads.

According to the General Staff, fighting also continued in the South-Slobozhansk, Kupyansk, Lymansk, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Kostiantynivsk, Oleksandrivsk, Orichivsk directions.

On January 22, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, stated that the Defense Forces continue to restrain Russian troops in Pokrovsk and Myrnograd in Donetsk region, as small groups of the Russian Federation are trying to infiltrate the northern regions of both cities. He noted that as a result of the active assault actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, another attempt by the Russian invaders to seize these settlements was thwarted.

Fighting in Pokrovsk has been going on since October 2025, when the Russian army managed to break through to the city after several months of fighting on its slopes. Almost immediately, Russian soldiers began to be recorded in Pokrovsk’s satellite city of Mirnograd.

The Pokrovsky direction, according to the reports of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, constantly leads in terms of the number of Russian assaults.