KCNA on the 19th reported Kim Yo-jong said Zelenskiy's allegation that North Korea is sending troops to Russia to fight is baseless and a Kyiv "self-made drama".

On Aug. 19 Dongfeng Commercial Aerospace's Zhuque-3 reusable launch vehicle placed the Honghu-03 satellite into its planned orbit and completed China’s first land recovery of a launcher's first-stage landing legs. The Beijing Rocket Street Commercial Space Intelligent Telemetry, Tracking and Command (TT&C) Center in Yizhuang — the country’s first open commercial TT&C shared platform and located more than 1,000 km from the launch site — entered service the same day and handled full-process satellite and rocket TT&C for the mission.

纳斯达克生物科技指数在Moderna和默沙东的黑色素瘤疫苗在大型试验中取得成功后上涨3.2%。