The Ethiopian government Saturday claimed its forces recaptured the strategically important Woldia-Mekelle highway amid territorial gains in the Amhara region.
Thousands of militants of the rebel Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) have been routed on several fronts, and others who survived the heavy offensive have retreated cowardly to several places, State Minister of Government Communication Services Selamawit Kassa said in a briefing.
Many of soldiers of the “terrorist TPLF” have also been left injured in an offensive carried out by the joint Ethiopian forces.
The joint forces have taken control of the Zobl mountainous area and other very significant towns including Arjo, Fokissa and Boren, Kassa said.
The Ethiopian forces have also retaken Dire Roka and Sodoma military strategic towns, and are advancing to Hara town.
On the Wuchale front, the forces have captured the strategic mountain chain of Ambassel, Robit and Golbo, Mille Kotcha of Worebabo district, Kolbon area of Habru district and Merkata and Faji localities, and are marching on Mersa town.
Government Communications Service stated that the military offensive that has been undertaken by the Mechanized and Air Forces of the Ethiopian National Defense Force has left the terrorist TPLF fighters with heavy causalities. The Ethiopian forces has routed many of the terrorist group forces and blocked them from transporting what they have plundered from several areas to Mekelle after cutting off the highway to Mekelle.
The Forces have dealt the terrorist TPLF fighters strong blow in many fronts as the enemy is now crumbling and heavily frustrating from the coordinating military offensive led by the Prime Minister, Government Communications Service added.
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