{"id":1414222,"date":"2026-07-04T22:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/since-the-beginning-of-the-day-the-defense-forces-have-repelled-236-assaults-by-the-russian-army\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T22:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:55:20","slug":"since-the-beginning-of-the-day-the-defense-forces-have-repelled-236-assaults-by-the-russian-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/since-the-beginning-of-the-day-the-defense-forces-have-repelled-236-assaults-by-the-russian-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Since the beginning of the day, the defense forces have repelled 236 assaults by the Russian army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GeneralStaff.ua\/posts\/pfbid02KMiiQz617ukmhZ1Snd6JwG8U7iyySWcGYDD2V91SPhxRHx6Z5iGVVd9uoePkNc56l?locale=uk_UA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> operational information as of 10:00 p.m. on July 4 regarding the Russian invasion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> In total <strong>, 236 combat clashes have taken place since the beginning of this day.<\/strong> The aggressor launched one missile strike using two missiles, carried out 58 air strikes using 173 guided bombs, used 6,008 kamikaze drones for strikes, and carried out 1,837 shelling of the positions of our troops and settlements.<\/p>\n<p> Two clashes with the enemy took place in <strong>the North-Slobozhansk<\/strong> and <strong>Kursk<\/strong> directions. The enemy carried out one airstrike, dropping one anti-aircraft missile, and carried out 39 shellings of settlements and positions of our troops.<\/p>\n<p> During the day, in <strong>the South Slobozhansk<\/strong> direction, the enemy stormed the positions of our units seven times in the area of the settlements of Starytsia, Synelnykovo, Artilne, Kudiivka, Izbitske and towards Khatne. Three clashes are still ongoing.<br \/> The enemy has not yet conducted any offensive actions in the Kupyansk direction.<\/p>\n<p> Five attempts by the invaders to advance were repelled in <strong>the Lyman<\/strong> direction towards the settlements of Shyykivka, Stavky, Lyman, and in the Drobysheve area.<\/p>\n<p> In <strong>the Slavyansk<\/strong> direction, the Defense Forces successfully stopped 23 attempts by the invaders to advance towards the settlements of Kryva Luka, Rai-Oleksandrivka, and in the areas of Riznykivka and Zakitne.<\/p>\n<p> In <strong>the Kramatorsk<\/strong> direction, Russian invaders carried out two attacks in the Markovoye area and towards Tikhonivka.<\/p>\n<p> In <strong>the Kostyantynivka<\/strong> direction, the Defense Forces repelled 14 enemy assaults in the areas of the settlements of Kostyantynivka, Illinivka, Ivano-Pillya, and in the direction of Dovha Balka. Another clash is currently ongoing.<\/p>\n<p> The enemy carried out 23 attacks in <strong>the Pokrovsky<\/strong> direction. The occupiers tried to advance in the areas of the settlements of Shakhove, Rodynske, Novooleksandrivka, Kotlyne, Udachne, Hryshyne and towards the settlements of Vilne, Kucheriv Yar, Novyi Donbas, Serhiivka, Ivanivka, and Bilytske.<\/p>\n<p> According to preliminary estimates, today 37 occupiers were eliminated and 8 were wounded; one artillery system, two units of motor vehicles, three units of special equipment, three fuel and ammunition depots were destroyed. Eight units of enemy motor vehicles, one unit of special equipment, and 107 personnel shelters were damaged. 285 unmanned aerial vehicles of various types were destroyed or suppressed.<\/p>\n<p> In <strong>the Oleksandrivka<\/strong> direction, the enemy attacked four times in the area of the settlements of Oleksandrovgrad, Berezove, and Ternove.<\/p>\n<p> In <strong>the Hulyaipil<\/strong> direction, the Defense Forces successfully repelled 27 enemy attacks in the areas of Dobropillya, Zaliznychne and towards the settlements of Vozdvizhivka, Hulyaipilske, Tsvitkove, Charivne, Verkhnia Tersa, Staroukrainka, and Kosivtsevo.<\/p>\n<p> In <strong>the Orikhiv<\/strong> direction, our defenders stopped three enemy attempts to advance towards Lukyanivske and Novodanylivka. One clash is currently ongoing.<\/p>\n<p> The enemy did not conduct offensive operations in <strong>the Dnieper<\/strong> direction.<\/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 July 4 regarding the Russian invasion. In total , 236 combat clashes have taken place since the beginning of this day. The aggressor launched one missile strike using two missiles, carried out 58 air strikes using 173 guided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1402178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1414222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414222","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=1414222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1402178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}