16th - 23rd February, 2022
Fighting has been raging since 21 February in Moebye border town between Shan and Karenni States. The KNDF claims more than 60 junta’s troops have been killed in clashes and the junta fired nearly 500 artillery shells a day and carried out 21 airstrikes during the six-day battle. According to local media reports, more than 20 Karenni troops were also killed and many more were injured in heavy artillery shelling on 17 February. On the same day, as many as 12 members of the People's Defense Forces were killed in a clash near Kan Gyi Kone village in Khin-U Township, Sagaing, DVB reported. NUG's Public Voice TV reports that two YAK 130 fighter jets were destroyed when the People's Force (Yangon) carried out a remote mine attack inside the junta’s air force base in Hmawbi Township, Yangon on the night of 18 February. However, the junta’s spokesperson told the BBC that no such attack had taken place. On 21 February, the coalition of local defence forces attacked the junta’s tr...
