U.S. President Donald Trump said that Thailand and Cambodia had agreed to cease all shooting and resume a peace accord he helped negotiate, yet heavy fighting along the disputed frontier has continued, with both governments offering conflicting accounts of the situation.

Trump announced on social media that he had spoken with Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet and that both leaders had agreed to halt hostilities effective immediately and return to the terms of the original Kuala Lumpur Peace Accord negotiated this year with Malaysian support.

The accord, first signed in October and witnessed by Trump, aimed to stabilise the long-running border conflict that has flared periodically over unclear colonial-era demarcations and territorial claims.

However, Thai and Cambodian officials in statements after the announcement did not confirm that a ceasefire was in effect, and combat has continued along multiple sectors of their roughly eight-hundred-kilometre shared boundary.

Thailand’s caretaker prime minister said there was no agreed ceasefire and that his forces would continue military actions until perceived threats subsided, while Cambodian statements stressed ongoing fighting without explicitly acknowledging a halt to hostilities.

The Thai defence ministry reported exchanges of rockets and artillery in border provinces and said clashes were ongoing even after Trump’s announcement, with civilian areas affected and casualties reported on both sides.

Independent observers and international news correspondents have documented the continuation of hostilities, contradicting the notion that shooting has stopped.

The disputed frontier has seen renewed escalation since early December, with rocket attacks, fighter-jet strikes and artillery exchanges displacing more than half a million civilians and causing significant humanitarian distress.

The conflicting accounts underscore the fragility of externally brokered ceasefires in deeply rooted territorial disputes and raise questions about what constitutes a meaningful cessation of fighting when senior officials on the ground report otherwise.

Neither the Thai nor Cambodian governments have issued joint confirmation of a complete halt to combat, and neither side has elaborated on how Trump’s proposed return to the peace accord would be operationalised amid active hostilities.