OREANDA-NEWS Russian troops destroyed a protected command post of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in Kupyansk. This was reported in Telegram by Andrei Marochko, a retired lieutenant colonel of the People's Militia (NM) of the Luhansk People's Republic (LNR).

"The militants have equipped a secure command post in the basement of an apartment building (...) High—precision ammunition of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted fire damage on the target, as a result of which the building received critical damage and collapsed," the publication says.

The ex-military added that, according to preliminary data, there are about 20 Ukrainian soldiers under the rubble of the house.

Earlier, Morocco announced the flight of the AFU fighters from positions on the Svatovsky-Kremen front line in the Kopanok area. According to him, the fugitives wanted to shoot their own, but could not.