YANGON, July 4 -- When Myanmar military helicopters arrived over Mhlaing Township in Mandalay Region on July 2, the ambush was already over. A three-hour engagement had left two police officers from Company-1 of Police Battalion-8 dead and ten more in resistance custody, with weapons, ammunition, mortars, and drone-related equipment seized from a convoy that had set out with approximately 110 personnel.

The People's Defence Force and allied forces struck the column in the Ein Gyi Taw village area. Mi-35 helicopters arrived after the engagement had ended, followed by gyrocopters and jet fighters conducting airstrikes in nearby areas. No information on casualties or damage from those airstrikes has been reported.

On the same day, in Nan M...