“There were two such cases in the Avdeevka area ... The enemy suffered colossal losses for the first time.

Three tanks were destroyed, two were hit ... Up to 70 soldiers were destroyed, ”TASS quoted him as saying.

He also specified that 15 Ukrainian soldiers were killed while trying to break through in the Novomikhailovka area.

Earlier, Basurin said that the forces of the DPR suppressed the attempts of a counteroffensive by Ukrainian troops in the area of ​​Avdiivka, south-west of Donetsk and Novomikhailovka.