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Ukraine's drones have struck Russia's Bashneft refinery in the city of Ufa, positioned around 1,400 kilometers from Ukraine, resulting in blasts and a inferno, as reported by a informed individual in the Ukrainian SBU.

This constitutes the latest Ukrainian security service far-reaching assault in the region in the past month. These strikes show that there are no safe places in the distant backlines of the Russian Federation.

Ukrainian President Calls On US President to Facilitate Peace in the Conflict

President Zelenskyy appealed to the US President to facilitate a truce in the Ukrainian conflict over a call on Saturday.

"Provided that a conflict can be ended in one region, then certainly other wars can be halted as well, covering the conflict with Russia," the President remarked, hailing Trump's "exceptional" Gaza ceasefire plan and urging the President to pressure the Moscow into talks.

Moscow's Strikes Take Victims in Ukraine

Russian attacks on Ukrainian territory resulted in the deaths of several civilians on the weekend and disrupted electricity to areas of the south Odesa oblast, per local sources.

Two civilians died inside a place of worship in Kostyantynivka when it was targeted, according to municipal sources.

In Russia's adjacent territory of the Belgorod region, a lorry operator was killed by a drone assault, per local officials.

Electricity Repair Operations in Kyiv

Efforts carried on on the weekend to repair energy infrastructure in Kyiv, after Russian attacks.

Energy had been returned to more than 800,000 inhabitants by the weekend and the biggest utility provider announced the primary efforts to restore power was finished though some outages persisted.

Anti-Aircraft Efforts and Drone Jamming

The Ukrainian anti-aircraft systems intercepted or jammed fifty-four of seventy-eight UAVs from Russia launched towards the country overnight, the air force announced on Saturday.

The Russian defense officials stated it shot down 42 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory.

Cuban Government Refutes Accusations of Deploying Troops to the War

Havana on Saturday rejected American assertions it has deployed military personnel to fight in the Ukraine war, while affirming officials in Havana "lack precise information about individuals" involved "independently" or "in the military forces of the conflicting parties".

The foreign ministry in the capital announced 26 Cubans had been convicted to jail sentences ranging from five up to fourteen years for participating as mercenaries since the autumn of 2023 when information circulated of Cuban nationals being deployed to the frontlines in the conflict.

Surrender Initiative Program Reports Data on Cuban Recruitment

I Want to Live, a official Kyiv program that encourages enemy combatants to surrender, reported in May: "We reliably know the identities and information of one thousand and twenty-eight Cuban nationals who entered into agreements with the Moscow's troops in 2023-2024."

The Cuban foreign ministry commented of Cuban nationals who might be involved: "There is no doubt that no individual has the encouragement, commitment, or approval of the Cuban authorities for their actions."

Family members of Cuban nationals who traveled to the Russian Federation in the year told news outlets at the time that their loved ones had been misled into enlisting through advertisements on online platforms.