The Sudanese army tightened the screws on the Rapid Support Forces in the Presidential Palace and central Khartoum after launched air attacks by the flying and artillery on the elements of these forces that tried to escape from the presidential palace across the center of Khartoum, passing through the Freedom Bridge, which led to the escalation of smoke tongues from the perimeter of the palace and some of the surrounding buildings.
Battle of the Misrals
A field source told Al -Jazeera Net that Wednesday evening until the dawn of Thursday, a force of rapid support tried to withdraw from the perimeter of the palace and the government ministries complex in the center of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.
The source pointed out that the withdrawn rapid support forces were using four -wheel drive vehicles, some light armored vehicles and motorcycles.
The source emphasized that the force tried to withdraw through Al -Qasr Street to open a path through the Freedom Bridge to escape, but the army dealt with it with enlightenings and was able to destroy more than 30 four -wheel drive vehicles and a number of motorcycles, as well as killing dozens of rapid support elements.
The source pointed out that Al -Qasr Street, specifically the area between the Astak Medical Factory and the Maridian Hotel, witnessed the killing of dozens of rapid support soldiers and the destruction of their cars with enlightening.
The source emphasized that the army controls all roads leading to the palace after closing it with pedestrians and covering it with enlightenings, starting from west of Khartoum, where the industrial zone and east, where the Nile and south towers to the Muqrin Al -Neelain and north of the city of Bahri.
The source said that the attempts to withdraw by the rapid support forces are like suicide to tighten the army control all the ports in the middle of Khartoum.
Battle in the middle of Khartoum
The center of the Sudanese capital has become a daily square for the fierce battles between the army and the Rapid Support Forces.
The central Khartoum region includes most of the sovereign, ministerial, civil, markets, major hospitals, banks and banks.
Recently, the army began penetrating into the center of Khartoum and took control of several sites, including hospitals, hotels and transportation stations where the Rapid Support Forces were holed up on its way to control the presidential palace under the control of rapid support since April 2023.
Muhannad Fadl, one of the fighters in the center of Khartoum, told Al -Jazeera Net that the army has developed a strategic plan to control the center of the capital with the least losses of besieging rapid support with all military vehicles.
He added that the operation was launched from the industrial zone to the general leadership, closing public outlets, and besieging rapid support in the Arab market and the presidential palace. Muhannad said that the rapid support tried to exploit some boats in the White Nile to escape and dealt with them, as well as the closure of the streets leading to the palace, which failed all their attempt to break the siege imposed on them.
While one of the officers was satisfied with the rapid support in central Khartoum by denying their loss of a battle in central Khartoum during his brief talk to Al -Jazeera Net.
Obstacles on the road to the palace
Observers believe that there are obstacles that contributed to delaying the army’s storming of the presidential palace, including the deployment of the Rapid Support Forces in the middle of Khartoum, especially the tall buildings and taking a place for sniping.
One of the armored weapons officers, who preferred to withhold his name, told Al -Jazeera Net that the most obsessed things that hindered the arrival of the army are high -rise buildings in the center of the capital, such as Zain Telecommunications Company, the Central Bank of Sudan towers, the Nile Petroleum Towers, Al -Fateh Tower and the Friendship Hall.
The source said that the Rapid Support Forces have taken these sites to sniping and use snipers the latest weapons, including the anti -armor weapon, which is used as a weapon for sniping, especially in the Niles Makat area in Khartoum.
The source pointed out that the presence of the Rapid Support Forces at the headquarters of the strategic battalion in central Khartoum is also considered an obstacle to the army’s progress from the south, where the armored weapon is.
He said that the army, after a siege in the center of Khartoum, is able to neutralize all the high buildings and buildings and control the presidential palace.
What remains of the palace?
A Sudanese army source told Al -Jazeera Net that what separates the army from the palace is an area that does not exceed meters, noting that the army seeks to inform the Rapid Support Forces losses in lives and equipment through the weapon of the Misurals before the land storming of the palace.
The source said that the process of restoring the palace is in the verdict of certainty after imposing a collar of the siege on the rapid support forces in the Arab market and the presidential palace and the closure of all land and sea ports.
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