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Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have hit the Russian oil facility in the city of Ufa, positioned some 1,400 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, triggering blasts and a inferno, as reported by a insider in the Ukrainian Security Service.

This represents the latest SBU long-range attack in Bashkortostan in the past month. These operations show that there are no secure zones in the distant backlines of the Russia.

Ukrainian President Calls On US President to Mediate Peace in Ukraine

Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed to Donald Trump to facilitate a truce in Ukraine during a call on the weekend.

"If a war can be ended in a single area, then undoubtedly other wars can be stopped as well, encompassing the conflict with Russia," he stated, praising the US President's "remarkable" Middle East truce proposal and urging the American leader to pressure the Kremlin into negotiations.

Moscow's Attacks Claim Casualties in the Country

Moscow's assaults on Ukraine claimed the lives of five people on Saturday and caused blackouts to sections of Ukraine's southern Odesa area, per Ukrainian officials.

Two people were killed in a church in Kostyantynivka when it was hit, per regional officials.

In Russia's border region of the Belgorod region, a truck driver was lost his life by a Ukrainian strike, per regional authorities.

Power Restoration Efforts in Kyiv

Operations proceeded on the weekend to restore power in Kyiv, after assaults.

Power had been returned to more than 800,000 residents by Saturday and the major power firm announced the primary work to restore power was complete though some outages persisted.

Air Defence Efforts and Drone Interceptions

Ukraine's anti-aircraft systems intercepted or jammed fifty-four of 78 total enemy drones launched targeting the country in the dark hours, the air force announced on the weekend.

The Russian defence ministry said it eliminated 42 Ukrainian drones over its own soil.

Cuban Government Denies Accusations of Sending Forces to Ukraine

Havana on Saturday refuted US assertions it has deployed military personnel to participate in the conflict in Ukraine, while affirming Cuban authorities "lack accurate information about citizens of Cuba" involved "independently" or "as part of the armed units of both sides".

The foreign ministry in the capital said 26 Cubans had been given prison terms to jail sentences from five to 14 years for participating as mercenaries since last September when information circulated of Cubans being deployed to the frontlines in the conflict.

Surrender Initiative Project Reports Details on Cuban Enlistment

The surrender initiative, a state project that promotes enemy combatants to surrender, stated in spring: "We have confirmed the identities and information of one thousand and twenty-eight Cubans who entered into agreements with the Russian armed forces in recently."

The government in Havana stated of those who might be engaged: "It is irrefutable that not a single one has the support, allegiance, or consent of the Cuban state for their actions."

Relatives of Cuban nationals who departed to the Russian Federation in 2023 reported to international media at the time that their loved ones had been deceptively recruited through ads on digital networks.