For the second consecutive day, the central region of Khartoum is witnessing violent battles between the Sudanese army and the rapid support forces, while the army seeks to regain control of the center of the capital, which is the center of government and politics and includes the headquarters of civil society organizations and service establishments, while support forces for the region.
This comes in the midst of the army progress, which have managed to cut a certain number of roads leading to the palace and to control the large buildings, the last of which was the Kuwaitian architecture, located 500 meters east of the palace.
According to observers, the Sudanese army has followed a tight plan to control the center of Khartoum, which is filled with elite and ambush shooters, in a battle which is one of the wars of the most difficult cities and requires precise strategic tactics.
According to a military source from the island, the army relied on the “long -term” strategy, avoiding the rush, especially since the rapid support forces are buried inside the major buildings, especially in the AL -Muqrin region. This is why the army has prepared combat units specially trained to regain control of the center of the capital.
tactical
The first step was to restore the center of Khartoum by crossing a combat force for white bridges and rescue, connecting Bahri and Khartoum, and the concentration in the Al -Muqrin zone, despite the danger of the operation which was carried out very effectively.
Last October, the army pushed a soldier with a soldier who included members of the anti -terrorism authority of General Intelligence Service (formerly the Operations Authority), as well as the police of the central reserve and volunteers of the rows of the army, in order to fight in the region of Al -muqrin al -waar.
Given its open location, Al -Muqrin was a great challenge, because the rapid support forces were buried in the high buildings, which gave them the advantage of targeting the elements of the army. However, the army managed to consolidate its presence there, exhausting the rapid support forces by daily bombing and continuous skirmishes, gradually exhausting its defenses, according to a military source.
Armored weapon
The army not only sought to control the center of Khartoum through the Al -Muqrin region, but also made movements of the armored weapon, which allowed it to reach the city center.
A military source told the island that the army had pushed a “male intention”, led by Brigadier General Anwar Al -zubayr, towards the center of Khartoum, the same convoy which managed war operations in the old omdurman and managed to restore them.
According to La Source, “determination of men” has gained great experience on the ground in the war of cities after the old Omdurman battles in the state of Khartoum in March 2023.
He added that the convoy forces, as well as armored weapons units, were launched from the south of Khartoum to its center, where they took control of strategic locations, including the Sherroni transport station and the Nilein towers near the presidential palace.
The first elite brigade
The army fought a battle in the center of Khartoum, which is the most complex, through several axes. From the general command, the army pushed its forces through a force called “the first elite brigade”, a combat training which acquired experience in the war of cities during its participation in battles to restore the jelly refinery. It consists of combatants of the anti-terrorism authority of the general intelligence service, as well as volunteers who fight in the army.
The brigade was able to regain control of strategic areas and buildings in the university streets and Mr. Abdul Rahman, including the Zaytouna hospital, which is one of the highest buildings in Khartoum, in addition to the Khartoum education hospital and the African tower.
This came in the context of tight coordination with the special work forces, which allowed the army to comb the rue Municipal and the Mak Nimr bridge, which links the cities of Khartoum and Khartoum Bahri.
Attribution
In addition to the army, several battalions participated in the center of Khartoum.
In addition, the “revolutionary brigades” were involved in the fighting, where their participation in the battles of the Oriental Presidential Palace and near the Zaytuna hospital was concentrated, as part of continuous operations to regain control of the center of Khartoum.
Heavy weapons
The center of Khartoum and the environment of the presidential palace attends the use of a wide range of weapons, heavy and light.
A security source indicates to Al -jazeera net that the fast support force stationed in the center of Khartoum is estimated at approximately one combat battalion (500 people or more).
He added that the army had carried out, at dawn today, Thursday, by an air strike by the steps, targeting a certain number of quick support elements while trying to escape from the palace, killing a certain number of them with the defenses of the army and its suicide bomber.
The source also revealed the presence of foreign elements fighting alongside rapid support in the center of Khartoum, in particular elite shooters, noting that most of them come from countries adjacent to Sudan.
Fight arsenal
The security source confirms that the rapid support forces use a group of various weapons in the battles of the center of Khartoum to hinder the progress of the army, in particular the Anti-Aarcraft cannon “23”, which depends on it in direct confrontations, in particular in the Al -Muqrin zone, as well as the missiles “14.5”, the high content missiles “. and efficient.
The source stressed that rapid support depends on anti-armor missiles “Cornet” as sniping weapons, while two elite shooters armed with these missiles were deployed in large buildings in the center of Khartoum, such as the Kuwaits Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Architectures, which was recently found by the army. These elite shooters managed to obstruct the army movement on the Mak Nimr bridge.
For its part, the army is based on the heavy artillery stationed in the engineers of Omdurman engineers to bomb the fast support movements near the strategic area near the Arab market at the center of Khartoum, in addition to its use of suicide steps to prevent repeated infiltration operations of the rapid support elements of the downtown.
The army announced that the armored weapon would allow him to impose a seat on the rapid support forces in Khartoum of all directions.
For weeks and with an accelerating rate, the “rapid support” control areas have started to decrease in favor of the army in the states of Khartoum and Al-Jazeera, Nile Blanc, northern Kordofan, Sennar and Blue Nile.
Since April 2023, the Sudanese army and the rapid support forces have been fighting war which has left more than 20,000 dead and around 15 million displaced and refugees, according to the United Nations and local authorities, while a search for American universities estimated the number of deaths of around 130,000.