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.