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Ukraine's UAVs have targeted the Russian Bashneft facility in Ufa, located some 1,400 km from Ukraine, resulting in detonations and a inferno, as reported by a insider in Ukraine's Security Service.

This represents the third Ukrainian security service far-reaching assault in the region in the past month. Those strikes demonstrate that there are no safe places in the deep rear of the Russian Federation.

Zelenskyy Appeals to Trump to Mediate Truce in the Conflict

Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the US President to mediate a ceasefire in Ukraine over a telephone conversation on the weekend.

"If a conflict can be halted in a particular zone, then certainly additional conflicts can be ended as well, including the Russian aggression," he stated, hailing the US President's "remarkable" Gaza ceasefire plan and calling for the US president to compel the Kremlin into discussions.

Moscow's Strikes Claim Casualties in the Country

Russian attacks on Ukraine claimed the lives of 5 individuals on Saturday and cut power to parts of Ukraine's south Odesa region, as stated by Ukrainian officials.

A pair of individuals lost their lives within a religious building in the town when it was targeted, as reported by municipal sources.

In Russia's border region of Belgorod, a lorry operator was fatally wounded by a Ukrainian strike, according to municipal sources.

Energy Recovery Operations in Kyiv

Efforts continued on the weekend to repair energy infrastructure in the Ukrainian capital, after Russian attacks.

Energy had been restored to more than 800,000 inhabitants by Saturday and the major private energy company said the main operations to repair the grid was concluded though some outages persisted.

Air Defence Operations and UAV Jamming

Ukraine's anti-aircraft systems neutralized 54 out of 78 Russian drones deployed towards Ukraine in the dark hours, the military reported on Saturday.

The Russian defense officials stated it eliminated 42 drones over its own soil.

Cuban Government Denies Allegations of Providing Troops to Ukraine

Havana on the weekend denied American allegations it has sent military personnel to participate in the Ukraine war, while declaring Cuban authorities "lack precise data about Cuban nationals" engaged "voluntarily" or "in the military forces of both sides".

The foreign ministry in Havana said twenty-six Cubans had been given prison terms to prison terms varying between 5 to 14 years for mercenary involvement since the autumn of 2023 when information emerged of Cuban nationals being dispatched to the battlefield in the conflict.

I Want to Live Project Reveals Data on Cuban National Involvement

I Want to Live, a state project that urges enemy combatants to give up, stated in spring: "Our information indicates the identities and information of over a thousand Cubans who enlisted with the Russian military in 2023-2024."

The government in Havana commented of Cuban nationals who might be involved: "Undeniably that no individual possesses the encouragement, allegiance, or consent of the Cuban state for their involvement."

Relatives of individuals who left for Russia in the year reported to Agence France-Presse at the time that their relatives had been misled into enlisting through ads on online platforms.