MPA reports fighting near Chauk, Magway region

The 19th century Goteik Viaduct rail bridge, once called a wonder of industrial Burma, has been damaged. The Tatmadaw blames the TNLA and locals are blaming the Tatmadaw.

www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/u... US envoy went to Kachin but the US denies that they met with the KIA. At the same time the KIA has come out to say that the junta refused to come to Kachin for peace talks

I couldn't be more proud to share the space with the brave & insightful @hpanjabrang.bsky.social on this podcast, where we talk about the future of rare earth mining in areas of Kachin State, Myanmar now under control of the Kachin Independence Organization (1/2). whimyanmar.com/pressure-on-...

I think this will be a test of China-junta relations if UWSA joins the elections or not- especially as Min Aung Hlaing is trying to redirect rare earth sales from China to the US www.irrawaddy.com/news/politic...

DCI Group lobbying firm signs deal to lobby for the junta in Washington. Prior attempts to lobby the US by the junta failed due to existing sanctions preventing payment. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

AA takes Set Set Yo village in Pathein Township near Lemyethna repelling a junta forward outpost but face battle as reinforcements arrive.

Junta acting president Myint Swe dead apnews.com/article/myan...

www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmar... Irrawaddy reports that Conflict Armament Research traced junta anti-interference navigation modules were made in the EU and sold through China to the junta

www.narinjara.com/news/detail/... Interesting to see if AA is potentially funding a buffer army with Bangladesh, thought I don't think they have the resources to be worrying about funding the KNF right now. If anything it might be indicative of where the AA-Bangladesh diplomatic talks are going

resistance forces conducting roadchecks reportedly on the Aungban-Mandalay road in the Danu SAZ according to Ayeyarwaddy Times

Map update for July 2025 The Junta makes counteroffensive gains for the first time in a while taking Thabeikkyin and Nawnghkio. Control still flipping back and forth a bit in the southeast. Though at this scale, it looks less impressive than the SAC now SSPC is boasting about

myanmar-now.org/en/news/resi... Attention is on the Irrawaddy with the flotilla reaching Bhamo but there's also some naval action happening on the Chindwin

Sharing this channel that is uploading footage from the 2025 Myanmar earthquake www.youtube.com/@SagaingEart...

allegedly Vice Senior General Soe Win is in Nawnghkio

Chin Brotherhood alliance officers arrested in India by Assam Rifles over weapons and equipment smuggling myanmar-now.org/mm/news/65347

TNLA claims that Nawnghkio has not yet fallen and that they merely relocated their offices as the battle approached the city. Source: TNLA telegram t.me/taangtv2023/...

Junta airstrikes Sagaing as they sent a good portion of their riverine navy up to Bhamo to defend it from the now 7 month long siege by the KIA www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/m...

The move comes as the Arakan Army and its allies intensify their efforts to take junta positions in the area Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...

As the junta enters Nawnghkio town, there's also this interesting report of chinese people returning to Mogok. A ceasefire is probably quickly becoming TNLA's best way out perhaps Source: MPA www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP7h...

The Junta is looking to establish a new economic corridor through India to reach Russia www.bbc.com/burmese/live...

Min Aung Hlaing is ready to milk Trump's recognition of the junta and wiggle his way into legitimacy

Not sure what Malaysia's policy is at this point, they seem to flip back and forth on the junta election but hopefully they land on this: www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/myanmar...

Regime spokesperson Zaw Min Tun said that Naypyidaw would negotiate with the U.S. over concerns of perceived bilateral trade imbalances placed on imports from Burma to the U.S. starting in August. Read more in today's Daily Briefing: english.dvb.no/naypyidaw-to...

KNU takes Thukha Gone outpost in Dawei Township, Tanintharyi

The Kachin Independence Organisation’s spokesperson made the claim amid reports that Gen. N’Ban La was under house arrest by Chinese authorities, who have been pressuring Kachin forces to agree to a ceasefire with the Myanmar junta Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/kach...

Trump's recognition of the junta is rumoured to be based on rare earth exports from the KIA. I don't believe it's that deep with Trump but Reuters have written a more relevant analysis of rare earth from the revolution's territory and foreign relations for China: www.reuters.com/world/china/...

The Htee Khee border in southern Myanmar is being reopened as Thai authorities reallow trade. Trade is currently local, with things like food being traded with the local KNU territory although there are likely plans to expand the scope of trade myanmar-now.org/mm/news/64832/

Sources on the frontline in northern Shan State told DVB that two regime columns reached Kyaukkyan and Myakchinnu villages, each located approximately four miles (6 km) southwest and south of Nawnghkio Township, on Sunday. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #Shan Read more: english.dvb.no/regime-force...

Well looks like we can add the US to the list with countries like Belarus, Russia and India who recognise the junta

Civil warception- CNA has reportedly taken the CNDF HQ as the Chin civil war seems to be back on the table

China calls for ceasefire between TNLA and junta- which the TNLA might take if Taunghkam continues to be a strugfle for them www.bbc.com/burmese/arti...

The junta has been inviting the leadership of the PDF to "abide by the law" and join the new elections. Unusually, they have recently attempted to reel back its rhetoric- only calling some PDF members as terrorists. The NUG has already rejected this borderline peace offer

Interesting op-ed about the junta's relations with SSPP and UWSA, especially in light of them attending China's intervention peace forum recently www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/gues...

Google Earth also updated the imagery around Sittwe recently and you can see some deep trenches near the front, such as in this screenshot from Tawkangyi village

Map updated to July 4 2025: not a lot of changes. Most of the big news and wins this month aren't really map changes- shooting down jets, bunker schools etc. Otherwise slow progress, stalling from the monsoon and stalemates from junta drone counter-defence.

To round out Min Aung Hlaing's birthday, a junta column in Myingyan District has allegedly been ambushed and taken wholesale.

KNU posted this image where they have been reportedly training defectors from the Junta's Aung Zeya column counteroffensive against the KNU on the Asia Highway 1

Karenni resistance claim responsibility for shooting down a junta jet in Hpasawng Township www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-aga...

The junta seems dead set on holding some sort of sham elections and trying to normalise relations. Shawn Crispy writes that the "neighbor to watch the most is India, which has been a horribly bad-faith actor in post-coup Myanmar" asiatimes.com/2025/06/peac...

that sure is a lot more "Myanmar scholars in Belarus" than I'd have expected. (junta src: www.myanmaritv.com/news/meeting...)

bur.mizzima.com/2025/06/29/6... There are now 13 private Chinese mercenary groups fighting for the junta in Myanmar

Myanmar: I feel like this shows an overlooked reality in Myanmar... as EAOs post waves of photos (below from the past week) of healthy looking recruits graduating, the regime is stuck relying on aging veterans, addicts, & otherwise coerced fighters -- all malnourished amid logistical constraints.

PDF captures more junta soldiers in Kyaukkyi Township. Looks like PSG fan grandpas in the junta's elite forces aren't quite so elite

While more and more countries like the UAE recently are becoming emboldened in normalising relations with the junta, Japan seems to be an outline www.orfonline.org/research/bet...

Drones keeping the Battle of Bhamo going on asiatimes.com/2025/06/sieg...

The Junta's 344 battalion reportedly retreats from Yegyi to Kyonpyaw Township Source:Myanmar Now myanmar-now.org/mm/news/64358/

A forensic study of how 🇲🇲's people-led revolution is often dissolved into a shapeless, menacing blur of chaos, disorder & state collapse by int'l media "Where #China is portrayed as the adult in the room, the #Myanmar people are reduced to the mess on the floor." ahnah.substack.com/p/how-the-ec...

India- after recognising the junta, continuing to send weapons to the junta, detaining PDFs an potentially killing them- has their embassy send a cutesy flower gift for Aung San Suu Kyi's birthday

Ayeyarwaddy Times reports on AA moving further into Lemyethna Township taking the Thanu Kone area and controlling over 30 villages now in the area.