NATO Secretary General Rutte said countries have no choice but to step up support for Ukraine.

俄罗斯国防部：俄军已控制哈尔科夫地区的贝列兹尼基和多尔任科耶定居点。

China’s lithium-battery sector has moved into the battery-cell segment: several leading suppliers have recently lifted product prices and smaller battery makers have followed, accelerating a new wave of battery-price increases. Interviews indicate the cell-price rise partly reflects higher costs from an adjustment to the battery consumption tax, while the deeper driver is a shift in industry supply-demand dynamics. Although producers broadly intend to pass on costs, execution is uneven; industry participants say the repricing is effectively a stress test that could prompt consolidation, force steep cost cuts and efficiency gains, and push competition toward vertical integration, higher-end products and globalization.