Ukraine blows up another Russian military headquarters in Lysychansk

Ukraine blows up another Russian military headquarters in Lysychansk
Russia has lost yet another command post to a Ukrainian rocket strike after a headquarters in Donbas was blown up Thursday, officials have claimed.

Video from the occupied city of Lysychansk uploaded to Telegram and taken by Chechen special forces appeared to capture the moment the rockets struck on Wednesday afternoon, sending plumes of smoke into the air.
Serhiy Haidai, the regional governor, said Ukraine had struck the base - which had been set up inside the old headquarters of Kyiv's security services - and killed around 100 Russians, including commanders of the 2nd Army and 20 FSB officers.

It comes just two days after the Ukrainian headquarters of the notorious Wagner mercenary group was blown up after a Russian propagandist accidentally gave away its location in a photograph.
Haidai said that attack had also killed a similar number of Russian troops, though Wagner's owner - oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin - had survived.

Speaking about the latest blast in Lysychansk, Haidai added: ' Not only the leadership of the 2nd Army Corps, but also FSB officers were blown into the air.

'According to preliminary information, as a result of an explosion yesterday in Lysychansk, the SBU building, which housed the headquarters of the occupiers, was completely destroyed. About a hundred Russians died.

'The majority [were] the leadership of the 2nd Army Corps and approximately 20 representatives of the Russian FSB.'

Haidai also joked about the 'dangers of smoking indoors' - a reference to recent explosions at military bases in Crimea which Russia tried to claim was due to a fire caused by a cigarette.

In fact it was Ukraine that was behind three blasts on the occupied peninsula, according to an anonymous official who spoke to CNN - damaging two airfields and destroying an ammunition dump.