"Throw from another direction": The Armed Forces estimated the presence of reserves of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the Bakhmut area (video)
Additionally, certain sections of the front were exacerbated by paratroopers and tank units. On the flanks near Bakhmut, Ukrainian troops continue to go forward. There are some successes near the settlement of Berhivka. The defense forces are also attacked in the direction of Orikhovo-Vasilivka village. "We are pushing for the enemy, we are releasing our territory," Kalashnikov said. The defense forces are kept directly under fire control and Bakhmut himself.
Russian units that are in the destroyed city are regularly affected. In this way, Ukrainian defenders do not allow the Russians to stop and make fortifications. "We constantly keep them in fire tension," the presenter explained. In the evening report of the General Staff, on July 20, it was reported that the enemy concentrates not only in the Bakhmut direction, but also in Kupyansk, Lyman, Avdiivsky and Marinsky. In these locations there were 20 combat clashes.
Ukrainian defenders under the tight fire of the enemy's artillery successfully reflected the enemy attacks on the southwestern outskirts of Kigshchiyivka. More than 10 settlements, Vasyukivka, Yar, Bogdanivka and Alexander-Shultine of Donetsk region, were affected by enemy artillery shelling. We will remind, on July 20 the commander of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces Alexander Sirsky stated that all the conditions were created to release Bakhmut.