European Commission President VON DER LEYEN said the EU today transferred the first tranche of pledged loans to Ukraine.

Israeli Defense Minister KATZ said the military will maintain forces inside "security zones" in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza as long as necessary and will not withdraw from the "security zones".

China State Planner and the National Energy Administration issued a new energy system plan to build a flexible power‑load ecosystem and increase user‑side demand response via new load management systems. The plan calls for full use of electric‑vehicle storage and integrated vehicle‑pile‑station‑grid interaction, promoting smart, orderly charging and targeting roughly 50 GW of aggregated adjustable vehicle‑grid charging capacity by 2030. It also mandates accelerated scale‑up of virtual power plants, aiming for VPP regulation capacity to exceed 50 GW by 2030.