Russia – Ukraine war updates as of July 20, 2024

Russia – Ukraine war latest updates from the General Staff of Ukraine as of July 20, 2024.

878 day of the russian large-scale invasion and 3,798 day of the russia’s war against Ukraine begins.

Operational information as of 8:00 p.m. July 20, 2024 regarding the Russian invasion.

During the past day, 135 combat clashes were recorded.

According to detailed information, yesterday the enemy launched four missile strikes against the positions of Ukrainian units and populated areas using seven missiles, as well as 77 airstrikes, dropping 106 anti-aircraft missiles. In addition, he carried out more than 4,500 attacks, of which 151 were from rocket salvo systems.

The aggressor carried out airstrikes in the areas of populated areas, in particular, Hlyboke, Mali Prohody, Liptsi, Vovchanski Khutory, Staritsa, Pylna and Vesele of the Kharkiv region; Toretsk, Severny, Shcherbakivka, Brestok, Zalizne, Novoselivka Persha, Oleksandropil, Timofiivka, Vovche, Grodivka of the Donetsk region; Lobkove, Kamianske, Mala Tokmachka and Novodanilivka of the Zaporizhzhia region.

Yesterday, the aviation and missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces carried out 12 strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel and anti-aircraft defense systems of the enemy, and also hit one EW station, one Osa air defense system and a helipad.

In the Kharkiv direction, five combat clashes took place in the areas of Hlyboke and Vovchansk settlements.

In the Kupyansk direction, the number of attacks per day was 10. The defense forces repelled enemy assaults near Synkivka, Petropavlivka, Novoosynovo and Stelmakhivka.

In the Lyman direction, the enemy attacked 16 times near Grekivka, Nevsky, Terny, Novosadovo, as well as in the Serebryansky forest.

In the Siverskyi direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled the assaults of the Russian invaders near Bilogorivka, Verkhnokamyansky, Vyimka, and Pereizny. A total of 11 clashes took place.

In the Kramatorsk direction, the occupiers attacked nine times in the areas of Chasiv Yar, Klishchiivka, Hryhorivka, and Bila Hora.

In the Toretsk direction, the enemy launched 19 attacks near Severnoy, Toretsk, New York and Zalizny.

In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders repelled 36 assaults in the areas of the settlements of Vozdvizhenka, Novooleksandrivka, Progress, Kalinove, Yasnobrodivka, Skuchne, Oleksandropil, and Novoselivka Persha, where the invaders, with the support of aviation, tried to dislodge our units from the occupied lines. The greatest concentration of enemy attacks was near Novooleksandrivka and Novoselivka Persha.

In the Kurakhiv direction, the Defense Forces repelled 11 attacks near Krasnohorivka, Karlivka, Paraskoviivka and Kostyantynivka, where the enemy tried to break through the defenses of our troops.

In the Vremivsk direction, the enemy made one assault near Vodyanyi.

In the Orihiv direction, the occupiers will continue to try to knock Ukrainian units out of their positions. Seven Russian attacks were unsuccessful in the areas of Mala Tokmachka, Shcherbaki, Robotyny and Novoandriivka.

In the Dnieper direction, there were six combat clashes with the enemy on the left bank of the Dnieper.

In the Gulyaipole direction, the situation has not undergone significant changes.

No signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups were detected in the Volyn and Poliske directions.

On the border with the Chernihiv and Sumy regions, the enemy maintains a military presence, carries out shelling of populated areas from the territory of the Russian Federation, carries out sabotage and reconnaissance activities, and increases the density of mine and explosive barriers along the state border of Ukraine.

At the same time, our soldiers continue to actively inflict significant losses in manpower and equipment on the occupying forces, exhausting the enemy along the entire line of battle.

In general, the Russian invaders lost 990 soldiers last day. Ukrainian soldiers also destroyed seven tanks, 15 armored combat vehicles, 22 artillery systems, one anti-aircraft missile system, an anti-aircraft vehicle, an Su-25 aircraft, 34 operational-tactical unmanned aerial vehicles, 59 vehicles and 14 units of enemy special equipment.

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