Ukraine Reports 272 Combat Clashes in Single Day With Fiercest Fighting at Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka

Ukraine's General Staff reported 272 combat engagements over the 24 hours to the morning of July 29, with the heaviest fighting in the Pokrovsk sector, where Ukrainian forces repelled 37 Russian assaults near Vasylivka, Kotlyne, and Udachne, and the Kostiantynivka sector, where Russian troops carried out 31 attacks near Kostiantynivka, Illinivka, and Ivanopillia 123. Russian forces also conducted 87 airstrikes dropping 298 guided bombs, fired 9,383 kamikaze drones, and carried out 3,073 shelling attacks including 58 with multiple launch rocket systems 12. Ukrainian aviation, missile forces, and artillery struck four concentration areas of Russian personnel, and UNN, citing the General Staff, reported Russian losses for the day at 1,310 personnel along with a tank, six armored vehicles, and 60 artillery systems destroyed or damaged 2. A separate Russian-language front update reported ongoing urban clearing operations by Russian troops in Konstantinovka and claimed the capture of Krasny Kut near Kostiantynivka; these details were not corroborated in the Ukrainian General Staff's reporting 4.