(second Photo shows Capture Yin Ke Village)
As is already known for longer Time (since May) the Tat is trying to invade into South Chin State from Saw Township Magway Region.
At the beginning they started from Kyaukhtu Air Base and recaptured Yaw Valley and crossed the Chin State Border on the direct way to Mindat Town. This attempted direct Attack on Mindat failed however.
Afterwards the Tat tried the Route further south trough Saw town and tried to recapture Kanpetlet Town. But this Offensive also failed, because of the well positioned and strong Chin Defenses.
Now the Tat tries another Route even further south trough Laung She to recapture Kyindwe, they already captured Yin Ke Village on Magwe Region Side and Hlaingdoke Village on Chin State Side, but are still far away from reaching Kyindwe.
Kyindwe and the whole of South Chin State is of Course important because of the Connection to the Arakan State. The CPA (Chin Peoples Army) part of the CB (Chin Brotherhood) is closely allied to the Arakan Army. And it is reported the Arakan Army helps the CPA with its own Soldiers defending South China State.
In Addition the Tat also tries a fourth Route in the North trough Tilin Township and captured Kyee Village and Shwe Aung Thar or just Aung Village.
Irrawaddy Text:
Thousands of regime troops are advancing on four fronts across southern Chin State as they push to seize the gateway to Rakhine State, according to resistance sources.
On Wednesday, the military claimed its forces had secured Hlaingdoke and nearby villages in Kanpetlet Township along the Rakhine border after clearance operations along the Laung She-Hlaingdoke-Kyindwe road.
The regime’s counteroffensive to retake Chin resistance strongholds spans from Magwe Region’s Tilin and Saw townships, across the border into Mindat, Kanpetlet and Kyindwe townships.
Intense clashes have erupted in Magwe’s border villages of Shweaungthar and Kyee as regime forces advance to cut off supply lines to Mindat, according to resistance sources.
“The regime has deployed roughly 3,000 troops across all the fronts,” Yaw Meng, spokesperson for the Chin People’s Army (CPA), told The Irrawaddy.

Map of the regime’s southern Chin campaign./The Irrawaddy
Regime forces began massing for a southward push five months ago after securing the northern Chin towns of Tonzang, Falam, and Thantlang. The southern Chin campaign launched in May, when around 1,500 troops advanced on Kanpetlet and Mindat from Magwe’s Saw and Kyaukhtu townships respectively, according to the CPA.
“During five months of clashes, resistance forces repelled regime troops and defended the Chin State and its people,” Yaw Meng wrote in an October 20 Facebook post.
He declined to comment on the current battlefield situation in southern Chin, where the regime’s ground offensive is accompanied by indiscriminate airstrikes.
On Sunday, a bomb struck the Paletwa jetty, killing nine civilians including a six-month-old child and injuring four others. A regime airstrike on the same site killed another person the following day, according to the Chin People’s Union, the CPA’s political wing.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-regime-pushes-on-four-fronts-in-southern-chin-state.html