Ukraine SITREP 1. The Ukrainian counteroffensive in Kharkiv Oblast continues to push east and southeast whilst careful not to over extend, focusing on maintaining its communications and resupply requirements. The consolidation of Ukrainian forces in numerous regions is ongoing.
2. Ukrainian forces manoeuvred securing more settlements and strategic roads around Lyman yesterday on all fronts and pushed through Russian defences in part along the Oskil river region.
3. Fighting increased again around Bakhmut with significant fighting by the highway intersection to the south, but no real Russian gains yesterday.
4. We shall refrain from any further operational details around the Kharkiv counteroffensive with a lot happening into Luhansk and around Donetsk now.
5. Russian air/missile strikes continued to occur across widespread regions yesterday and overnight, but remain at a much less number than the early trends of the invasion. Impacts were reported mostly in the south and southeast. At least one interception was also reported.
6. Ukrainian forces downed another Russian Su-25 yesterday, that’s more than four combat fighter/bomber aircraft in the last week or so and more than 50 destroyed since the Russian invasion.
7. That’s a lot of fast air for Russia to loose considering its air activity has not been widespread and dynamic due to having no air superiority.
9. There are ongoing reports of Russian forces having significant supply problems for their aircraft now, with activity seemingly reducing.
10. Ukrainian Air Defences are also increasing as they re-secure new regions as part of counteroffensives. Ukrainian air activity continued to be high yesterday with several SEAD Operations destroying Russian vehicles, resupply posts, command and control and air defences.
11. Russian shelling yesterday was intensive around Donetsk and towards Bakhmut with intensive phases reported into Sumy and towards Kharkiv again. Elsewhere shelling was mostly more sporadic in the regions impacted.
12. There was minimal reported information out of the Ukrainian counteroffensive east of Zaporizhzhia yesterday.
13. Around Kherson Ukrainian forces continue to make small gains under heavy resistance, with the progress mostly in the degrading of Russian defences and resupply options through effective HIMARS and air/missile strikes.
14. Another Russian barge was destroyed on the Dnipro as well as multiple Russian resupply depots and vehicles.
15. Reports of Russian submarine manoeuvres in the Black Sea is nothing new. Russian Naval activity here and in the Sea of Azov remains mostly unchanged.
16. USAF and RAF ISR aircraft continue to monitor this closely. This is the USAF RQ-4B Global Hawk high altitude UAV monitoring movements overnight. 
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