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• Two Russian missile strikes on the east Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, including on a residential building, Kyiv said. Seven people were killed in the strike and 81 were wounded, including two children, Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk region's military administration said. Russia's defense ministry said Russian forces had hit a Ukrainian command post.

• Ukrainian nuclear power plants located in territory held by Kyiv will be fully operational by winter to provide electricity for the country, Ukraine's atomic energy operator said. "All the power at our disposal will be given to the electricity grid", after the servicing of some reactors before winter, Energoatom chief Petro Kotin, told journalists. READ MORE BELOW

• Ukraine's security service said it had detained an informer accused of helping Russia plot an attack on President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as he visited a flood-hit region. The SBU security service said the detained woman was gathering intelligence to try to find out Zelenskyy's itinerary ahead of his visit to the southern Mykolaiv region.

• Moscow accused Ukraine of inciting Russians to set fire to military recruitment offices, following a recent uptick in the number of arson attacks. The General Prosecutor's Office linked the attacks to the "successful advance of the Russian armed forces" in Ukraine.

• Russia said its troops had advanced three kilometers along the Kupiansk front in northeast Ukraine over the last three days, as it seeks to regain territories it lost earlier in its offensive. "Over the past three days, the advance of Russian troops... amounted to 11 kilometers along the front and more than three kilometers deep into the enemy's defense," Moscow's defense ministry said. 

• Ukraine said it was "satisfied" with a summit held in Saudi Arabia over the weekend on a peace settlement to end fighting, to which Moscow was not invited. Representatives from around 40 countries including China, India, the U.S. and Ukraine took part in the peace summit, which was held in Jeddah. "We are very satisfied with the results of the summit," the head of Ukraine's presidential office, Andriy Yermak, said. 

• Moscow unveiled new history textbooks ahead of children returning to the classroom for a second school year with troops fighting in Ukraine and ruptured ties with the West. Presenting the new book aimed for the 11th grade - 17 year olds -- at a news conference in Moscow, Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov said the material was written in just a few months for "conveying the aims (of the Ukraine offensive) to school children."

• A Russian court sentenced leading science fiction writer Dmitry Glukhovsky to eight years in prison in absentia for denouncing Moscow's Ukraine offensive on social media. Glukhovsky, who lives outside Russia, is best known for his novel Metro-2033, that has also been used as a basis for a popular video game. 

IN DETAIL

Ukrainian power plants will be operational for winter energy supply

Ukrainian nuclear power plants located in territory held by Kyiv will be fully operational by winter to provide electricity for the country, Ukraine's atomic energy operator said. "All the power at our disposal will be given to the electricity grid", after the servicing of some reactors before winter, Energoatom chief Petro Kotin, told journalists. 

He was speaking at the Yuzhnoukrainsk plant in southern Ukraine to mark the recommissioning of one of its three reactors - each with a capacity of 1,000 megawatts. Ukraine currently has three power stations with a total of nine reactors in the territory under its control.

"We will enter winter with nine reactors at full capacity," said Kotin, adding that four reactors currently under repair would be operational before November, with a total capacity of almost 7,600 megawatts. 

The fourth nuclear power station, which is also the biggest in Europe, is the Zaporizhzhia plant which houses six reactors. It has been occupied by Russian forces since March 2022. 

Kotin added that it was vital to regain control of the Zaporizhzhia plant, with a capacity of 6,000 megawatts, in order to supply electricity to Ukraine. 

According to Kotin, Ukrainian nuclear power stations were not "directly affected" by the wave of Russian strikes on energy infrastructure in the autumn and winter of last year, which cut off power to millions of Ukrainian homes. 

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