While covering these MTB Taisto 1 caughts fire and explodes after gun and bomb hits from IL-2 planes south from Oritsaari island. One man is lost and 3 wounded. The only operational total loss of the MTB fleet. Enemy tries to continue from Viipuri, but are halted in this sector to the end of war. Finland asks terms for peace via Sweden.
Soviet Union replies that only unconditional surrender is accepted.
The Ribbentrop Pact is signed by President Ryti and German Minister of Foreign Affairs Ribbentrop. This ensures delivery of food and war material from Germany to Finland. First landings to Teikari island in Bay of Vyborg are repulsed. Battles in Ihantala begin. Several enemy attacks are repulsed mainly with artillery fire.