Uganda’s military says its forces have killed over 100 rebels in eastern Congo accused of carrying out the attack that left 15 UN peacekeepers dead earlier this month.
The military said in a statement Wednesday that several other Allied Democratic Forces rebels were wounded in air and artillery raids.
The military says the operation has been carried out from Ugandan territory and no Ugandan forces are on the ground in DRC.
The December 7 attack on a UN base that killed peacekeepers from Tanzania was the deadliest single assault on a peacekeeping mission in almost 25 years.
The ADF originated in Uganda as a rebel force against the government and carried out deadly bombings in the 1990s. A military campaign forced them to relocate to eastern DRC.
Ukraine crisis: Biggest prisoner swap in conflict takes place
Ukraine and separatist rebels in the east of the country are carrying out the biggest exchange of prisoners since the conflict began in 2014.
Ukrainian authorities are transferring more than 260 people back to rebel-held areas, in return for some 70 prisoners who have been held by pro-Russia rebels in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
It is the first swap in 15 months.
The release and exchange of prisoners was one of the points in the Minsk peace agreement, signed in 2015.
The deal has stalled since and analysts say the swap does not signify wider progress. Both sides continue to hold other prisoners.
Buses and other vehicles carrying the prisoners assembled at the Mayorsk checkpoint near the city of Horlivka in Donetsk for the swap.
carried out amid tight security
Originally, 306 prisoners were meant to be returned to rebel-held territory, but some have reportedly refused to go, for reasons that are as yet unclear.
The negotiations for the exchange saw the involvement of presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine, as well as the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The conflict in eastern Ukraine erupted in April 2014, soon after Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula. The UN says more than 10,000 people have died in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
