MOSCOW, February 20. /TASS/. The liberation of Avdeyevka has demonstrated what the Russian military is capable of, Konstantin Gavrilov, head of the Russian delegation to negotiations on military security and arms control in Vienna, said.

"As the fall of Avdeyevka shows, there is nothing a Russian soldier cannot do," the diplomat noted on the Rossiya-24 TV channel.

On February 17, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu informed Russian President Vladimir Putin about Avdeyevka coming under the full control of the Russian army. The Russian Defense Ministry stressed that the information about the advance of the Russian troops was not made public until the Ukrainian forces were completely defeated.

According to the agency, the troops of the Center group continue further offensives in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) after the capture of Avdeyevka, 13 km north of Donetsk.