1. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has arrived in Ankara for talks with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Zelenskyy said he had not been officially informed of the level of the Russian delegation, but suspects it is more of a proxy.
2. Families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea have met with new US Ambassador to Japan George Glass. They urged his cooperation in realizing the swift return of the abductees. 3. A team from the University of Tokyo has begun a survey of wild bats in Vietnam to look for a virus with the potential to cause another pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic is thought to have been caused by a virus that jumped from a wild animal to humans. Health experts have warned that another previously unknown virus could spread from wild animals to humans.