Zelenskiy briefed U.S. Middle East special envoy Witkoff and Trump senior adviser Jared Kushner on the battlefield situation. He said Russian forces' progress has been limited and has come at heavy cost.

Japan’s Self-Defense Forces said on the 28th it has dismissed active-duty officer Murata Akihiro after he allegedly forced his way into the Chinese embassy. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said at a routine briefing the officer entered the embassy armed with a knife and issued violent threats, calling the episode unprecedented, a serious violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and a grave threat to the safety of Chinese diplomatic staff and facilities. Guo said the incident exposed rampant domestic right-wing forces and failures in SDF discipline, noted that Japan has brought a prosecution, and urged Tokyo to take responsibility, severely punish the perpetrator and conduct a full investigation and rectification, saying the international community is watching.

Multiple dairy executives told 21st Century Business Herald that Chinese tax execution standards for agricultural product processing are being updated. The changes affect the scope of corporate income tax preferential treatment for primary agricultural processors. In 1H, Yili, Mengniu and New Dairy paid additional taxes after some products were reclassified as deep-processed, which could increase their taxable bases.