The General Staff counted 193 combat engagements on August 1. The day ran across the named axes: northern Slobozhansky and Kursk, southern Slobozhansky, Lyman, Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, Kostiantynivka, Pokrovsk, Oleksandrivka, and Huliaipole, plus Orikhiv and the Dnipro sector where no Russian assaults were recorded. [1]

Kupiansk logged no enemy assault that day. Pokrovsk took 23 attacks. Sloviansk stopped 14. Lyman saw twelve attempts, three still going at the time of the note. Preliminary Pokrovsk figures: 41 occupiers killed and 18 injured. [1]

Russia launched three missile strikes with 31 missiles, 66 air strikes, 201 guided bombs, 6,659 kamikaze drones, and 2,381 shelling attacks on settlements and Ukrainian positions. [1]

X hears twelve axes and hears a wall. The staff note is a list of places that still take fire after dark. ISW's August 3 assessment found no confirmed advances by either side that calendar day. [2]

Kostiantynivka repelled 13 assaults with another fight still open. Oleksandrivka stopped three near Rybne. Huliaipole recorded six attacks around Vozdvizhivka and Tsvitkove that same day. [1]

The paper's position is the list, not the cheer. A front that must be named twelve separate times in one evening staff note is not quiet tonight.

-- KATYA VOLKOV, Moscow