{"id":1389333,"date":"2026-05-02T22:56:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/116-clashes-took-place-on-the-front-in-a-day-which-directions-are-the-hottest\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T22:56:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:56:48","slug":"116-clashes-took-place-on-the-front-in-a-day-which-directions-are-the-hottest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/116-clashes-took-place-on-the-front-in-a-day-which-directions-are-the-hottest\/","title":{"rendered":"116 clashes took place on the front in a day: which directions are the hottest?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GeneralStaff.ua\/posts\/pfbid0QD1asSEV9N3EHSnptzpjx7JYFdKEvyTiwuAxEuqoqCL6TdTLzwQu6AG5KLyviqRdl?locale=uk_UA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> operational information as of 10:00 p.m. on May 2, 2026 regarding the Russian invasion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> In total, <strong>116 combat clashes have taken place since the beginning of this day.<\/strong> The enemy carried out 47 air strikes &#8211; dropped 151 guided bombs. In addition, it used 5,360 kamikaze drones to destroy them and carried out 2,266 attacks on settlements and positions of our troops.<\/p>\n<p> In <strong>the North Slobozhansk<\/strong> and <strong>Kursk<\/strong> directions today, the enemy carried out 82 attacks on the positions of our troops and settlements, two of them from MLRS. Two enemy assault actions were recorded.<\/p>\n<p> In <strong>the South Slobozhansky<\/strong> direction, the enemy attacked the positions of our units five times in the Starytsia area and towards Lyman, Izbitsky, and Okhrimivka.<\/p>\n<p> In <strong>the Kupyansk<\/strong> direction, the enemy attacked once in the direction of Novoplatonivka.<\/p>\n<p> In <strong>the Lyman<\/strong> direction, Ukrainian soldiers repelled five assaults by the occupiers towards the settlements of Drobysheve and Lyman.<\/p>\n<p> In <strong>the Slavyansk<\/strong> direction, the enemy attacked twice in the Zakitne area and towards Rai-Oleksandrivka.<\/p>\n<p> In <strong>the Kramatorsk<\/strong> direction, the invaders attacked twice in the direction of Malynivka and in the Bondarne area.<\/p>\n<p> In <strong>the Kostyantynivka<\/strong> direction, the invaders stormed the positions of our defenders 16 times today in the areas of the settlements of Kostyantynivka, Ivanopillya, Illinivka, Rusyn Yar, Sofiivka and towards Zolotye Kolodyaz. Three attacks are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p> In <strong>the Pokrovsk<\/strong> direction, the enemy carried out 24 attacks. The occupiers tried to advance towards the settlements of Bilytske, Nove Shakhove, Rodynske, Novooleksandrivka, Udachne, Pokrovsk, Kotlyne, Muravka, Molodetske. According to preliminary estimates, today in this direction 54 occupiers were eliminated and 24 were wounded, 11 units of enemy vehicles and an artillery system were destroyed. Five units of enemy vehicles, 90 enemy shelters and three artillery systems were also damaged. 239 UAVs of various types were destroyed or suppressed.<\/p>\n<p> In <strong>the Oleksandrivka<\/strong> direction, the invaders attacked four times in the direction of Oleksandrovgrad, Zlagoda, and in the Ternovo area.<\/p>\n<p> In <strong>the Hulyaipil<\/strong> direction, 14 attacks by the occupiers were recorded in the areas of the settlements of Dobropillya, Zaliznychne, Svyatopetrivka, Staroukrainka, Charivne, Girke, Tsvitkove, Myrne, and Varvarivka. One of these attacks is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p> In <strong>the Orikhiv<\/strong> direction, the enemy attacked twice in the direction of Stepovoye and Primorsky.<\/p>\n<p> In <strong>the Dnieper<\/strong> direction, the enemy carried out three attacks towards Antonivka.<\/p>\n<p> There were no significant changes in the situation in other areas.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine published operational information as of 10:00 p.m. on May 2, 2026 regarding the Russian invasion. In total, 116 combat clashes have taken place since the beginning of this day. The enemy carried out 47 air strikes &#8211; dropped 151 guided bombs. In addition, it used 5,360 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1290850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"class_list":["post-1389333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategoriyi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1290850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}