Projectile event in Sagaing, Budalin area, Myanmar on Sun 28th December 2025

On 28 December 2025, in Budalin town (Budalin township, Monywa district, Sagaing region), a combined force of the Rocket Fighter Pauk People's Defense Force, the People's Defense Force - Nyaung-U District Battalion-3, the Chindwin Spring Revolution Armed Force, the Bamar Army, the PGZ-Peacock Generation Group, the Civil Armed Force, the Salingyi Border Task Force, the Oxygen, the People's Defense Force - Monywa District Battalion-20, the People's Defense Force - Yinmarbin District Battalions-9, 1, 28, the Monywa District Drone Force, the People's Defense Force - Budalin (PaKaPha), the People's Defense Force - Tabayin (PaKaPha), and the People's Defense Force - Ye-U (PaKaPha) attacked about 50 Myanmar military soldiers stationed in Moe private high school, general administration office, a police station and another school. The fighting lasted from 5:00 am to 1:30 pm. The combined force captured those outposts and some military soldiers and seized arms. The Myanmar military conducted drone strikes and airstrikes 7 times using Y-12 jets and paramotors starting from 7:00 am, and the Myanmar military in the Northwestern Military Command Headquarters also fired heavy weapons into the township, injuring at least 3 civilians. The combined force retreated from the town following the airstrikes from the Myanmar military. At least 15 military soldiers and 3 members of the combined force were killed. 18 fatalities.