The leader of Thailand pledged to continue fighting along the contentious border with Cambodia, with fighter jets hitting targets on 13th December, hours after the U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he had brokered a ceasefire.
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul wrote a post on Facebook, “The Southeast Asian country will still undertake military operations until we are sure that there will be no more harm and threats to our land and people.”
Cambodia and Thailand now face a much larger war because Trump wanted a photo op “peace treaty”.
Exactly as he’s trying to quickly sell Ukraine to Putin.. pic.twitter.com/aB8K1HFKzd
— Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) December 10, 2025
On 12th December, Trump, the negotiator of a ceasefire in an unending border conflict in October, talked to Anutin and Cambodian Premier Hun Manet, and stated that they had agreed to stop all firing.
Neither of them declared any agreement in their post-call with Trump statements, and Anutin claimed that there was no ceasefire.
“I want to make it clear. We have already talked this morning,” Anutin said.
When a request to comment on the ongoing fighting was made, the White House did not respond instantly.
In a statement on Saturday on Facebook, Hun Manet stated, “Cambodia still wanted to see a peaceful solution to the dispute according to the October agreement.”
Monday, Cambodia and Thailand have been trading fire across the 817-km (508-mile) border at several points, using heavy weapons, in some of the most intense combat since the five-day battle in July. It was the worst fighting in recent history that Trump called to a halt by calling both leaders.
The Nobel Peace Prize that Trump has repeatedly claimed he deserves has seen Trump eager to step in once again to save the truce. It was suspended by Thailand in the past month after a Thai soldier was maimed by a landmine, one of innumerable ones, according to Bangkok, recently planted by Cambodia.
Cambodia, a country that nominated Trump for the peace prize in August, denies the landmine claims.
On Saturday, a spokesman in the Thai Defence Ministry, Rear Admiral Surasant Kongsiri, held a press meeting where he was quoted as saying that there have been clashes in seven of the border provinces and the Cambodians have been firing heavy weapons, thus necessitating the need to retaliate by Thailand.
The Information Ministry in Cambodia reported that bridges and buildings across the country were being hit by Thai forces during the night, and artillery was fired on one of the naval ships.
Thai leader Anutin dismissed remarks by Trump that a roadside bomb that injured Thai soldiers was accidental, stating that the event was certainly not a roadside accident.
Hun Manet, the Hun Manet of Cambodia, claimed that he had requested the U.S and Malaysia, which has become a facilitator to the peace talks, to apply their intelligence gathering skills in determining which side initiated the most recent round of fighting.
