日本央行副行長冰見野良三：經濟下行壓力和物價上行壓力將會出現，但供應問題導致經濟大幅衰退的風險已經降低。

Thai baht near unchanged at 32.71 per US dollar after the Bank of Thailand held policy rate unchanged as expected.

Three people close to the Kremlin said Russia, having judged peace talks to be at a dead end, is preparing to escalate military strikes on Ukraine. Moscow is considering stepped-up heavy conventional ballistic-missile strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities’ infrastructure targets, the sources said. They added that Putin is unlikely to end the war in response to sanctions or Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries and logistics, and that Moscow increasingly views Ukrainian strikes as attacks by NATO states because of weapons and intelligence support. The sources said the current phase of hostilities has not yet reached the peak of military escalation.