Junta troops in northern Mandalay Region reportedly advanced to within two miles of the town of Tagaung, Thabeikkyin Township on Monday as part of a major counteroffensive to retake territory from resistance groups, frontline sources said.
The military regime began deploying columns of soldiers to the area in early February, mostly from a training base in Twin Nge village some 30 miles south of Tagaung, to recapture the strategically important town. Anti-junta forces have controlled Tagaung, located on the east bank of the Ayeyarwady River near the Mandalay-Bhamo road, since August 2024.
By last Friday, the ground troops reached as far as the village of Yae Yin, some six miles south of Tagaung, and reportedly moved about four miles closer to the town by Monday, according to a source close to the fighting.
“They are advancing in two separate columns on either side,” the source. . .
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