Combating between Thai and Cambodian forces continued early on Saturday hours after US President Donald Trump stated the 2 nations had agreed to a ceasefire.
Thai prime minister Anutin Charnvirakul stated he instructed the US president a ceasefire would solely be potential after Cambodia had withdrawn all its forces and eliminated landmines.
“Thailand will proceed to carry out navy actions till we really feel no extra hurt and threats to our land and folks. I need to make it clear. Our actions this morning already spoke,” he stated on social media.
Shelling continued in a single day, as Thai forces push to take a lot of vantage factors alongside the border. A minimum of 21 individuals have died within the renewed preventing and 700,000 have been evacuated on each side.
Trump had claimed earlier within the week that he may cease the preventing between Thai and Cambodian forces that broke out on Monday simply by selecting up the telephone.
After talking to each prime ministers on Friday night time he wrote on social media that the 2 nations had agreed to “stop taking pictures efficient this night” and return to the settlement they signed in entrance of the US president in October.
“Each nations are prepared for peace,” he wrote.
Nonetheless, Anutin stated he instructed Trump that Thailand was not the aggressor, and that Cambodia should present that it had withdrawn its forces and eliminated landmines from the border earlier than a ceasefire was potential. “They need to present us first,” he stated.
There was no point out of using tariffs as leverage to drive the 2 sides to disengage, as occurred in July.
Thailand has warned the US to not hyperlink the battle to commerce.
On Saturday Cambodia reported that it had been struck by extra Thai air strikes.
“On December 13, 2025, the Thai navy used two F-16 fighter jets to drop seven bombs” on a lot of targets, the Cambodian defence ministry stated in an X publish.
“Thai navy plane haven’t stopped bombing but,” it stated.
The Thai navy additionally confirmed that preventing continued.
The long-standing border dispute escalated on 24 July, as Cambodia launched a barrage of rockets into Thailand, which responded with air strikes.
Each nations have accused one another of initiating the assaults.
After days of intense preventing which left dozens lifeless, the neighbouring South East Asian nations agreed to an “fast and unconditional ceasefire” brokered by Trump and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. This was formalised at a ceremony in Malaysia in October presided over by the US president.
Nonetheless each side continued to commerce accusations of ceasefire violations, with Thailand publishing proof of Cambodian troops laying landmines, which have triggered seven Thai troopers to lose limbs. Cambodia says the mines are left over from the civil conflict within the Eighties.
Since then, tensions continued to construct.
This week, Thailand launched air strikes inside Cambodia after two of its troopers have been injured in a skirmish final Sunday. Cambodia has responded with rocket barrages. The preventing affected six provinces in north-eastern Thailand and 6 provinces in Cambodia’s north and north-west.
The 2 nations have been been contesting their 800km land border for greater than a century. The border was drawn by French cartographers in 1907, when France was the colonial ruler in Cambodia.
