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Russian forces have advanced into the construction zone of Avdiivka, Donetsk Oblast, and street fighting continues in the town, Ukrainian journalist Yuriy Butusov reported on Telegram on Feb. 4.

Russian troops attacked civilian infrastructure in Kupyansk, Kharkiv Oblast, likely using a FAB-500 air-dropped bomb, reported regional governor, Oleh Synehubov, on Telegram on Feb. 3. These bombs may have been equipped with a universal planning and correction module.

Russian troops damaged a full grain storage facility in Poltava Oblast on the evening of 2 February. Source: Filip Pronin, the Head of Poltava Oblast Military Administration (OMA) Details: The Poltava OMA reported that some of the harvest had been destroyed due to the attack.

Russian forces carried out a drone attack on Kryvyi Rih in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, targeting an energy infrastructure facility, reported Oleksandr Vilkul, the city’s Defense Council Head, on Telegram on Feb. 3.

The situation near Avdiivka, described by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as "especially difficult," was discussed at the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Oleksandr Musienko, head of the Center for Military-Law Researches, said on Radio NV on Feb. 3.

U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller was responding to a comment reported by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) in which Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested creating a "demilitarized" or "sanitary" zone in Ukraine that would put Russian territory and illegally occupied parts of Ukraine out of range of Ukrainian weapons.

Russian forces struck Beryslav and Inhulets in Kherson Oblast on Feb. 2, wounding three residents, the Kherson Oblast Military Administration reported.

Over the past week, more than a hundred people have been evacuated from the occupied outskirts of Avdiivka in Donetsk Oblast. This is an "unusual case" of evacuation, which took place in cooperation with the Ukrainian military.

A Ukrenergo substation has suffered damage as a result of a Russian night drone attack, leaving residential and industrial consumers of the city of Kryvyi Rih without electricity and more than 100 workers stranded underground due to a power outage at two mines.

Ukraine’s Air Force reported that at least seven Russian drones failed to reach their targets and were lost in the area.