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Ukraine's unmanned aerial vehicles have struck Russia's Bashneft facility in Ufa, situated approximately 1,400 kilometres from the Ukrainian border, causing detonations and a blaze, according to a insider in Ukraine's SBU.

This constitutes the 3rd intelligence long-range attack in the region in the past month. Those attacks illustrate that there are no protected areas in the distant backlines of the Russian state.

Ukrainian President Appeals to Trump to Mediate Truce in the Conflict

Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on President Trump to mediate a ceasefire in the Ukrainian conflict in a telephone conversation on Saturday.

"Provided that a conflict can be stopped in a single area, then certainly additional conflicts can be ended as well, encompassing the Russian war," Zelenskyy stated, hailing Trump's "outstanding" Middle East ceasefire plan and requesting the American leader to compel the Moscow into negotiations.

Russian Attacks Take Victims in the Country

Strikes by Russia on Ukrainian territory killed at least five people on Saturday and disrupted electricity to areas of Ukraine's southern Odesa region, according to local sources.

Two people lost their lives in a church in Kostyantynivka when it was hit, according to municipal sources.

In the Russian frontier area of the Belgorod region, a lorry operator was fatally wounded by a drone assault, per regional authorities.

Power Repair Operations in Kyiv

Efforts carried on on the weekend to restore power in Kyiv, after Russian attacks.

Power had been returned to over 800,000 inhabitants by Saturday and the largest utility provider said the primary efforts to repair the grid was finished though some outages persisted.

Air Defence Efforts and UAV Interceptions

The Ukrainian anti-aircraft systems intercepted or jammed 54 of seventy-eight UAVs from Russia sent targeting Ukraine overnight, the air force announced on Saturday.

The Russian defence ministry stated it shot down forty-two drones over the country's airspace.

Cuban Government Rejects Accusations of Deploying Soldiers to the War

The Cuban government on the weekend denied US assertions it has sent troops to fight in the Ukraine war, while declaring Cuban authorities "are without exact data about individuals" engaged "independently" or "as part of the armed units of either party".

The foreign ministry in the capital said 26 Cubans had been given prison terms to jail sentences ranging from five to 14 years for participating as mercenaries since September 2023 when reports circulated of individuals being deployed to the battlefield in the conflict.

I Want to Live Project Reveals Details on Cuban National Recruitment

The surrender initiative, a Ukrainian government initiative that encourages enemy combatants to lay down arms, said in spring: "Our information indicates the personal data of 1,028 individuals who entered into agreements with the Russian military in 2023-2024."

The Cuban foreign ministry stated of those who might be involved: "It is irrefutable that none of them has the support, allegiance, or approval of the Cuban authorities for their actions."

Kin of Cubans who left for the Russian Federation in the year told Agence France-Presse at the time that their loved ones had been misled into enlisting through promotions on online platforms.