On Saturday, Sudanese army warplanes carried out intense air strikes targeting Rapid Support Forces (RSF) sites in Khartoum and South Kordofan states, causing deaths and injuries among civilians, while a RSF’s spokesman announced that they had shot down a warplane in the eastern Nile.
Over the past three days, military operations in Khartoum and Al-Jazirah have escalated, and the escalation coincided with intense international and regional pressure on both sides of the conflict to stop the war after nearly nine months of continuous fighting.
Eyewitnesses said that “warplanes intensively bombed sites believed to be where the Rapid Support Forces are stationed in the Al-Dabaibat area, in Al-Quz locality in South Kordofan.”
The RSF control large parts of South Kordofan state, and impose a complete siege on Kadugli, the state capital, by closing the road leading to it from the city of El Obeid, which contributed to worsening the living conditions of the population.
In addition, eyewitnesses reported that the warplanes carried out air strikes on many sites in the eastern Nile region, including Haj Youssef and Al-Jarif Sharq, while the ground anti-aircraft guns of the RSF responded intensively to the bombing.
Volunteers in the eastern Nile spoke of deaths and injuries among civilians at Station 13 as a result of the aerial bombardment.
A spokesman for the RSF said that their forces shot down a warplane east of the Nile in Khartoum, while the army did not comment on this news.
