“Now we are expanding the foothold in the Pesok area, this is with access to Pervomaiskoye, Experimental, further to Thin, in order to completely surround Avdiivka,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying on Channel One.
On August 13, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the allied forces had taken control of the village of Peski in the DPR.
As Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu later reported, the allied forces broke into the echeloned defense of Ukrainian nationalists in the Donbass.