From "The Analyst":

KHARKIV UPDATE

The front here has not been stagnant, with a constant ebb and and flow of fighting.
The Russians have been trying to hold on, especially in Vovchansk, while the Ukrainian campaign to undermine their ability to do so has been persistent.
Ukrainian use of air strikes, their dogged persistence in blocking every move the Russians try to make to improve their position, has finally paid off.
The Russian strategy was this attempt to create a buffer zone to stop the repeated raids over the border, with a secondary objective of eventually, combined operations for an attack on Kupiansk, a key defensive town on the northern most part of the Eastern Front.
The Kursk operation denied both sides the forces required to bring their plans to fruition.
The intensified use of drones but for recon and attack, has isolated the Russians in Vovchansk further from supplies and reinforcements.
A Mig-29 Strike using GBU-39 bombs with delayed fuses, hit the main Russian operating base in the town, at the former hospital, totally levelling it.
It’s believed commanders and two companies were destroyed.
The Russians have tried to prise the Ukrainians out of Tike to the east of the town using bombs, and thermobaric artillery, failing to dislodge them.
Tike is on a hill, and the Ukrainians have seen Russians attempts to prepare assaults on it and ended them before they could begin, mostly with artillery strikes.
In a swift move the Ukrainians in Northern Vovchansk were able to sweep east as forces from Tike swept west, meeting in the middle and creating for the first time, a unified front.
Russia doesn’t have the resources to put into this front to make any real difference right now, and too a point nor do the Ukrainians, but Ukraine is making the most of what it has and exploits it to provide future advantages.
This at least is good news as the Pokrovsk front continues to be exceptionally stressful, with endless strings of small Russian gains. They still haven’t stopped trying to advance despite the huge cost.

‘The Analyst’ MilStratOnX
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