July 28, More than 20 Burmese army officers trained in Russia, who had been carrying out their duties at the ‘nuclear’ battalion of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), were dismissed from the army last week, according to sources close to military HQs.

Several army officers were detained and interrogated at the country’s new capital Kyappyay near Pyinmana since last month, for allegedly leaking some top secret military news to the outside world.

It is not clear whether they will be taken action against at the martial court or not. But their vacant positions are to be filled by some army officers who had just returned from Russia.