“The enemy really puts up very serious resistance, throws fresh forces into the battle all the time.

They feel that if this small boiler Lisichansk-Severodonetsk-Artyomovsk happens, then everything will hang over Slavyansk from three sides, so they are trying to prevent this, they have very serious resistance, ”TASS quotes him.

He added that the DPR forces advanced towards Artyomovsk and Slavyansk "from the north and from the west."

“There are advances.

Small, but there," Basurin said.

Earlier, he announced the use of tactics of small boilers in the Avdeevsky direction.