War update: 235 combat engagements on front line over past day, with most enemy attacks on five sectors

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated this on Facebook in its update as of 08:00 on July 20, Ukrinform reports.

The enemy carried out one missile strike, using 39 missiles, and conducted 76 airstrikes, dropping 222 guided aerial bombs.

In addition, the Russians used 10,761 kamikaze drones and carried out 3,116 shellings of populated areas and positions of Ukrainian troops, including 33 attacks with multiple launch rocket systems.

Ukrainian Air Force, missile forces, and artillery struck nine areas of concentration of Russian manpower, five UAV control points, one gun, two logistics depots, and one other important enemy target.

In the Northern Slobozhanshchyna and Kursk directions, Russian forces carried out three airstrikes, dropping eight aerial bombs, and conducted 56 shellings of Ukrainian troop positions and settlements, including one using MLRS.

In the Southern Slobozhanshchyna direction, Russian invaders attacked Ukrainian positions 14 times toward Hoptivka and in the areas of Lyman, Starytsia, and Prylipka.

In the Kupiansk direction, the Russians carried out no offensive actions.

In the Lyman direction, Russian forces attempted 26 times to break into Ukrainian defenses, attacking in the areas of Novomykhailivka, Drobysheve, Novoselivka, Hrekivka, and toward Shyikivka, Stavky, Lyman, and Ozerne.

In the Sloviansk direction, the Russian army assaulted 27 times in the areas of Zakitne, Kryva Luka, Riznykivka, and toward Pyskunivka and Rai-Oleksandrivka.

In the Kramatorsk direction, Russian invaders carried out two attacks in the area of Nykyforivka.

In the Kostiantynivka direction, the enemy launched 24 attacks in the areas of Kostiantynivka, Illinivka, Ivanopillia, Stepanivka, and toward Pavlivka.

In the Pokrovsk direction, Ukrainian defenders stopped 30 assault actions by the Russians in the areas of Toretske, Shakhove, Udachne, Filiia, Hryshyne, and toward Kucheriv Yar, Novyi Donbas, Myrne, Bilitske, Svitle, Novopavlivka, Shevchenko, and Novopidhorodne.

In the Oleksandrivka direction, no offensive actions by the Russian army were recorded.

In the Huliaipole direction, Russian invaders carried out 21 attacks in the area of Zaliznychne and toward Dobropillia, Tsvitkove, Vozdvyzhivka, and Hirske.

In the Orikhiv direction, Ukrainian defenders stopped one Russian attempt to advance in the area of Shcherbaky.

In the Prydniprovske direction, Russian forces carried out no offensive actions.

No signs of the formation of offensive groupings of the Russian army were detected in the Volyn and Polissia directions.

As Ukrinform reported, total combat losses of Russian personnel from February 24, 2022, to July 20, 2026, reached approximately 1,430,530 people, including 1,600 eliminated over the past day.