“Beyond the Sands, we have the Tonenkoye settlement, [taking] which can cover Avdiivka more in pincers, we have Krasnogorovka - now there are fights for it, for Tonenkoe [also] there are fights,” TASS quotes him.

Earlier, Basurin, in an interview with RT, said that "No one is going to take Avdiivka head-on."