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30-05-2024, 08:50 PM
Continue for above...The regime is hitting back against latest coordinated attack on its battalions in Mansi & Momauk with artillery, drones & fighter jets. Junta soldiers who fled from other bases in southern Kachin State, particularly near the border with China, have joined the battalions in Mansi and Momauk.
Col Naw Bu said KIA and its allies face major challenges in the two townships. “First, the use of air support is heavy. Second, there are many of soldiers there,” all junta soldiers who fled hilltop outposts has joined other battalions in Mansi & Momauk. Those battalions are close to Bhamo can be easily reinforced. They are using drones & heavy artillery,” he explained. It'll take time to seize the battalions, the colonel said.
Military analyst were estimating, each battalion in Mansi & Momauk has about 500 troops. The KIA will not able to seize Bhamo relatively easily if its not easy to defeat all 3 battalions, Its difficult attacking battalion HQ, their camp compounds are huge & fortified with trenches & bunkers. If Mansi & Momauk fall, anti-regime forces will attack Bhamo from east & south, besides command center, Bhamo town is home to frontline HQ of 88th Light Infantry Division, Artillery Battalion 366 & other combat support.
Many residents have fled Mansi and Momauk to Bhamo town. Junta artillery strikes have inflicted civilian casualties. 3 residents of a village in Momauk were killed by shelling on April 22, fighting is mainly taking place in Mansi & Momauk, shells have sometimes landed on villages in Bhamo Town, we can hear junta battalions in Bhamo shelling Mansi & Momauk. People told The Irrawaddy. Monday.
Junta troops have blockaded sections of roads between Bhamo & Mansi, and between Bhamo & Momauk, making it difficult to send injured people to Bhamo for hospital care.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-again...state.html
Col Naw Bu said KIA and its allies face major challenges in the two townships. “First, the use of air support is heavy. Second, there are many of soldiers there,” all junta soldiers who fled hilltop outposts has joined other battalions in Mansi & Momauk. Those battalions are close to Bhamo can be easily reinforced. They are using drones & heavy artillery,” he explained. It'll take time to seize the battalions, the colonel said.
Military analyst were estimating, each battalion in Mansi & Momauk has about 500 troops. The KIA will not able to seize Bhamo relatively easily if its not easy to defeat all 3 battalions, Its difficult attacking battalion HQ, their camp compounds are huge & fortified with trenches & bunkers. If Mansi & Momauk fall, anti-regime forces will attack Bhamo from east & south, besides command center, Bhamo town is home to frontline HQ of 88th Light Infantry Division, Artillery Battalion 366 & other combat support.
Many residents have fled Mansi and Momauk to Bhamo town. Junta artillery strikes have inflicted civilian casualties. 3 residents of a village in Momauk were killed by shelling on April 22, fighting is mainly taking place in Mansi & Momauk, shells have sometimes landed on villages in Bhamo Town, we can hear junta battalions in Bhamo shelling Mansi & Momauk. People told The Irrawaddy. Monday.
Junta troops have blockaded sections of roads between Bhamo & Mansi, and between Bhamo & Momauk, making it difficult to send injured people to Bhamo for hospital care.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-again...state.html
