Construction of the General Staff. The Russian Federation is trying to restore the offensive near Slavyansk and improve the position in the Nikolaev direction

Russia focuses on the maintenance of occupied areas in the South -Buzing direction and wants to take the actions of the Ukrainian forces. On Nikolaev - tries to improve the tactical position. This is stated in the summary of the General Staff as of 18:00 Saturday, August 20. The situation in the rest of the directions is as follows: a video of the day according to the General Staff, since the beginning of a full -scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has lost about 44. 9 thousand of its military.