Air Delivered event in Sagaing Region, Sagaing area, Myanmar on Sun 28th June 2026

At least eight civilians, including four children, were killed and more than 20 others injured on Sunday when the Myanmar Air Force launched two devastating airstrikes on a defenseless village in the Sagaing Region.

The lethal bombardment occurred just 48 hours after the military regime’s newly inaugurated president, Min Aung Hlaing, publicly renewed his offer for “unconditional peace talks” with ethnic resistance forces—a juxtaposition that critics say exposes the hollow nature of his attempt at diplomacy.

According to local residents and representatives from the People’s Defence Force (PDF), the airstrikes targeted Talaing village, located in Sagaing Township about 67 miles (107 km) east of the regional capital, Monywa. The strikes completely leveled five residential homes and sent shrapnel ripping through populated civilian areas.

The PDF told DVB that there was no active ground combat or military provocation occurring anywhere near Talaing village at the time of the aerial assault. The wider township remains a highly contested frontline zone between regime forces and resistance groups operating under the command of the civilian-led National Unity Government (NUG).