Ukrainian President Zelenskiy said Russian forces' ballistic missile strike deliberately targeted energy infrastructure, the same facilities the US President said were covered by his announced ceasefire agreement.

Goldman Sachs (GS.N) opened about 3% higher; JP Morgan (JPM.N) up nearly 2%.

On Oct. 14 Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning said at a regular briefing that a Heilongjiang provincial delegation recently visited Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, capital of Russia’s Sakhalin Oblast, for sister-province exchanges. In response to a KYODO question about reports the delegation had visited disputed islands (Russian Southern Kurils; Japanese Northern Territories), Mao said the visit was to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. She declined to comment on commercial activities by private firms during the trip.