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· Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was open to talks with Russia, but only "genuine" negotiations that would restore Ukraine's borders, grant it compensation for Russian attacks and punish those responsible for war crimes. READ MORE BELOW

· The secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council said the main condition for the resumption of negotiations with Russia would be the restoration of Ukraine's territorial integrity. Oleksiy Danilov said Ukraine also needed the "guarantee" of modern air defenses, aircraft, tanks and long-range missiles.

· Zelenskyy said the Donetsk region in the east remained the "epicenter" of fighting, with hundreds of Russians being killed every day.

· Ukraine's Russian-occupied city of Kherson was cut off from water and electricity supplies after an airstrike and a key dam in the region was also damaged, local officials said. Kremlin-installed authorities in Kherson said power had been fully restored to its main city, after blaming Kyiv for attacks that disrupted water and electricity supplies. READ MORE BELOW

· Putin said that 50,000 Russian soldiers called up as part of his mobilization drive were now fighting with combat units in Ukraine, the Interfax news agency reported.

· Russia's defense ministry denied allegations that a naval infantry unit had suffered disastrous losses of men and equipment in a futile offensive in eastern Ukraine.

· Ukraine announced it had received more air defense systems from Western military allies. The new weaponry comes as a question mark hovers over U.S. support for Ukraine ahead of midterm elections, which will determine control of the U.S. Congress.

· The White House said U.S support for Ukraine's war effort will be "unwavering" even if Republicans, who have expressed concerns about the level of spending, win midterm elections. "We are confident the U.S.'s support will be unflinching and will be unwavering," Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters.

· Ukraine said the defense ministry was requisitioning several energy and manufacturing companies to guarantee sufficient supplies for the military to fend off the Russian offensive. "In connection with military necessity, a decision was made to expropriate the assets of strategically important enterprises into state ownership," the secretary of Ukraine's national security and defense council, Oleksiy Danilov, told a news conference in Kyiv.

IN DETAIL

'Restoration of Ukraine's territorial integrity' key to negotiations

The secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council said the main condition for the resumption of negotiations with Russia would be the restoration of Ukraine's territorial integrity. Oleksiy Danilov said Ukraine also needed the "guarantee" of modern air defenses, aircraft, tanks and long-range missiles. 

"The main condition of the President of Ukraine is restoration of Ukrainian territorial integrity," Danilov wrote on Twitter. "Guarantee - modern air defense, aircraft, tanks, and long-range missiles. Strategy - proactive steps. Russian missiles must be destroyed before launch in the air, on land and at sea."

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was open to talks with Russia, but only "genuine" negotiations that would restore Ukraine's borders, grant it compensation for Russian attacks and punish those responsible for war crimes.

Kherson's water and electricity supplies cut

Ukraine's Russian-occupied city of Kherson was cut off from water and electricity supplies after an airstrike and a key dam in the region was also damaged, local officials said. It is the first time that Kherson - which fell to Moscow's forces within days of their February offensive - has seen such a power cut.

"In Kherson and a number of other areas in the region, there is temporarily no electricity or water supply," the city's Moscow-installed administration said on Telegram. It said it was the "result of an attack organized by the Ukrainian side on the Berislav-Kakhovka highway that saw three concrete poles of high-voltage power lines damaged."

Energy specialists were working to "quickly" resolve the issue, the Russian-backed authorities said, as they called on people to "remain calm." But the head of the regional administration, Yaroslav Yanushevych, blamed Russia for the power outages.

He said that in Beryslav city, around 1.5 kilometers of electric power lines had been destroyed - cutting off power entirely because the damage was quite extensive.

"Probably, there will be no light in Beryslav until the city is completely de-occupied," he wrote on the Telegram social media platform.

Kremlin-installed authorities in Kherson said power had been fully restored after blaming Kyiv for attacks that disrupted water and electricity supplies. News of the outage followed reports that the Kakhovka dam in Kherson was "damaged" by a Ukrainian strike.

The RIA Novosti news agency quoted a local Moscow-backed official saying the damage was not "critical."