Overview
- Ukrainian commanders said the Pokrovsk axis accounted for 80 assaults in the latest 24‑hour tally, alongside dozens of air strikes and thousands of kamikaze drones used by Russian forces.
- The evening update counted 150 clashes so far on Feb. 1, including 31 attacks near Pokrovsk, with sustained pressure also recorded around Lyman, Kostiantynivka and Huliaipole.
- Ukraine and Moldova suffered emergency shutdowns on Jan. 31 after two high‑voltage lines tripped, triggering cascading disconnections and brief suspensions of Kyiv’s metro and municipal services.
- Kyiv authorities reported about 1,000 apartment buildings still without heat on the morning of Feb. 1, after the energy ministry confirmed power restoration across all oblasts the previous evening.
- The death toll from a Russian drone strike on a worker shuttle near a mine in Dnipropetrovsk region rose to 16, as the EU’s ambassador condemned ongoing attacks and partners delivered additional generators.