Local officials said a Ukrainian airstrike on Russia's Rostov-on-Don killed two people.

Korea's National Pension Service (NPS) signed memoranda of understanding with leading Silicon Valley venture firms including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital at a Silicon Valley VC exchange in San Francisco. NPS said the six signatory VCs have combined AUM of $313.0 bln; the MOUs are intended to establish long-term cooperation channels to source global venture opportunities and facilitate market information exchange as NPS expands its overseas investment footprint.

Changxin Technology, a China domestic memory leader, debuted on the Sci‑Tech Innovation Board and within its first hour set several A‑share records: it became the first A‑share tech stock to open with a market value above 3 tln yuan (opening market cap ~3.31 tln yuan); it topped the STAR Market market‑cap rankings, surpassing SMIC; first‑hour turnover exceeded 100 bln yuan, making it the first A‑share single‑stock listing day to breach 100 bln yuan turnover, with full‑day volume likely to set a new record; and it is the first new listing to combine >100 bln yuan turnover with a turnover rate above 50%, signalling unusually high liquidity and trading activity.