The regional governor said a Russian airstrike on Kherson, Ukraine killed one and injured 19.

IMFC chair: Without investment from countries such as Saudi Arabia, the energy shock would have been much more severe.

On the 17th Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae, in her capacity as prime minister, presented a masakaki offering at Yasukuni Shrine, which enshrines Class-A World War II convicted war criminals. Several senior politicians — including the minister responsible for economic and fiscal policy and the speakers of the lower and upper houses — also presented masakaki. Fujita Takakage, chair of the Murayama Statement Inheritance and Development Association, said he strongly opposes politicians visiting or making offerings at Yasukuni, called the acts absurd and wrong, and urged Japanese society to uphold the spirit of the Murayama Statement.