Night air attack, 97 combat encounters, battles in the Pokrovsk and Kupyansk directions, losses of occupiers, enemy shelling, emergency power outages.
Fighters of the Defense Forces of Ukraine
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that 97 battles took place on the front over the past 24 hours.
39 of them were in the Pokrovsk direction, 18 – in the Kupyansk direction.
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On KurskIn the direction of the past 24 hours, our defenders repelled 12 enemy attacks, the enemy launched 383 artillery attacks, including two from multiple launch rocket systems; carried out 33 air strikes, dropping 43 KAB.
More details about the operational situation are in the news.
The General Staff also reports that over the past 24 hours, the Russian army lost another 1,300 occupiers and 12 enemy tanks, 18 combat armored vehicles, 51 artillery systems, 1 MLRS and 3 air defense systems. Since the beginning of the invasion, the losses of Russian troops amounted to about 841,660 people.
Other enemy losses are in the news.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky commented on the attacks on servicemen, calling these cases shameful.
He also recalled that mobilization is a necessity during war. According to him, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are doing everything to prevent human rights violations during mobilization measures. The ground forces are trying to overcome existing problems in the work of the TCC, correct mistakes, and are working to improve the quality of the TCC. On the night of February 3, the Russians attacked Ukraine with 71 Shahed-type strike UAVs and drone imitators of various types.
As reported by the Air Force, the drones flew in the directions of Orel, Kursk, Bryansk, Millerovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, which are in Russia and from the Crimea.
As of 09:00, the destruction of 38 Shahed-type attack UAVs and other types of drones has been confirmed in the Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Vinnytsia and Khmelnytsky regions.
25 enemy drone imitators have been lost (without negative consequences).
Sumy, Kharkiv and Cherkasy regions suffered as a result of the enemy attack.
Today, February 3, as a result of enemy shelling, emergency shutdowns were forced to be applied in nine regions, reported Ukrenergo.
As a result of missile and drone attacks on generation facilities and damage to the transmission system networks by the enemy, emergency shutdowns were applied in the morning in the Kharkiv, Sumy, Donetsk, Poltava, Zaporizhia, Kirovograd, Dnipropetrovsk (partially), Cherkasy (partially) and Kyiv (partially) regions.
In addition, as of 8:30 a.m., the level of electricity consumption was 3.3% higher than on the previous working day, that is, Friday, January 31. The reason for the drop in air temperature in most regions.
Today, from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., there is a need for very economical electricity consumption, so citizens are urged to avoid using powerful electrical appliances during this period if possible.
Drones attacked the Volgograd Oil Refinery and the Astrakhan Gas Processing Plant in Russia, the Operational Armed Forces of Ukraine and Astra write.
Locals in Volgograd counted at least 50 explosions overnight. Air defense was reported, and a fire broke out at the plant again. The city partially lost power.
According to locals, three plant installations and a gas pipeline were hit in Astrakhan. A fire is raging at the site. According to an eyewitness, a Gazprom facility was attacked.
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