Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing shed his military uniform, named himself president and proposed a 100-day peace process with resistance groups. Major resistance organizations rejected the proposal, which asks them to enter talks designed by the junta that overthrew an elected government.

In announcing the initiative, Min Aung Hlaing spoke of peace and reconciliation. The junta also released President Win Myint, reduced Aung San Suu Kyi's sentence and transferred her to house arrest.

The coup-installed regime controls Naypyitaw, major airports and the urban cores of Yangon and Mandalay, and retains aircraft, prisons, patronage networks and foreign backers. In areas held by rebel forces, the military bombs, raids and blocks transit arteries, and has the capacity to retake towns, block roads and inflict violence on civilian populations. Min Aung Hlaing does not command authority across the country.

Armed resistance has spread into central Myanmar since the coup, with multiple armed groups exercising power in the conflict. The National Unity Government, which claims democratic legitimacy from the 2020 election, has built parallel armed and administrative structures including People's Defense Forces, though it controls some units and not others. Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun, aligned with the pre-coup government, holds Myanmar's seat at the United Nations. ASEAN is divided over the junta's latest political changes.

In January, ISP-Myanmar estimated the regime had lost control of roughly 38% of the country's territory and had not recovered at least 150 overrun bases. A 2025 ISEAS study found anti-junta armed groups controlled as much as half the country, while the military held about a quarter.

The regime recently retook Falam in Chin State after a six-month offensive involving ground assaults and heavy airstrikes, though resistance forces remain active across the state. The military also seized Kangyi village in Saw Township in Magway Region, on a strategic route toward Chin State and Paletwa near the Rakhine State border. The military blocks roads between Magway, Chin and Rakhine States.

The Arakan Army controls most of Rakhine State except for three townships, while the military defends strategic pockets including Sittwe, Kyaukphyu and Manaung. After the Arakan Army exerted pressure around Sittwe, the regime responded with naval blockades and airstrikes.

In April, during the Myanmar New Year holidays, resistance forces captured regime positions in Karen State, and fighting along the Thai-Myanmar border remained intense. The Kachin Independence Army and allied forces have expanded their influence in Kachin State by seizing towns, border crossings and rare-earth mining areas, with the battle for Bhamo emerging as one of the country's most important fronts. Operation 1027, launched by the Three Brotherhood Alliance in Northern Shan State, exposed the military's weakness.

China pressures armed groups it tacitly supports or arms in Myanmar as it seeks to secure trade corridors near its border and views Kyaukphyu as a route to the Indian Ocean. India has connectivity interests through the Kaladan project and Sittwe port. Myanmar is located between China and India, linking South and Southeast Asia.