Fighting continued along the Thailand–Cambodia border on Saturday morning, hours after US President Donald Trump , acting as a mediator, declared that he had secured a ceasefire between the two countries. Trump on Friday wrote on Truth Social that he had spoken to Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet and that both sides had agreed to “cease all shooting effective this evening" and return to a peace agreement formalised in October.

The reality on the ground, however, told a different story. Thailand’s foreign ministry explicitly disputed Trump’s claim that a ceasefire had been agreed, while Prime Minister Charnvirakul said any halt in fighting would depend on Cambodia first ceasing its attacks. Cambodia did not confirm any truce either; instead

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