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Ukraine's UAVs have hit Russia's oil facility in Ufa, located around 1,400 km from Ukraine, triggering detonations and a inferno, per a source in Ukraine's SBU.

This marks the 3rd intelligence long-range attack in Bashkortostan in the last month. Such strikes demonstrate that there are no safe places in the distant backlines of the Russian Federation.

Ukrainian President Calls On Trump to Mediate Truce in Ukraine

The Ukrainian leader urged the US President to facilitate a truce in the Ukrainian conflict over a call on Saturday.

"If a conflict can be halted in one region, then certainly additional conflicts can be ended as well, encompassing the Russian aggression," Zelenskyy stated, hailing the US President's "outstanding" Gaza ceasefire plan and urging the President to compel the Kremlin into discussions.

Moscow's Strikes Take Casualties in the Country

Moscow's assaults on Ukraine killed at least 5 individuals on the weekend and disrupted electricity to areas of Ukraine's south Odesa oblast, according to local sources.

Two people died in a religious building in Kostyantynivka when it was hit, as reported by local authorities.

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

Energy Restoration Operations in Kyiv

Efforts carried on on the weekend to restore power in the Ukrainian capital, after assaults.

Energy had been restored to more than 800,000 residents by Saturday and the major utility provider announced the main efforts to restore power was complete though some outages continued.

Air Defence Efforts and UAV Jamming

Ukraine's defense forces downed or disrupted 54 out of seventy-eight UAVs from Russia sent targeting the country overnight, the aerial defense command announced on Saturday.

Russia's defence ministry stated it eliminated forty-two Ukrainian drones over its own soil.

Cuba Rejects Claims of Deploying Troops to Ukraine

Havana on Saturday rejected US allegations it has provided military personnel to fight in the conflict in Ukraine, while affirming officials in Havana "do not have accurate information about individuals" participating "voluntarily" or "as part of the armed units of the conflicting parties".

The foreign ministry in Havana said 26 Cubans had been sentenced to prison terms varying between five to 14 years for participating as mercenaries since the autumn of 2023 when information spread of individuals being dispatched to the front in Ukraine.

I Want to Live Program Reveals Data on Cuban Recruitment

The surrender initiative, a state project that promotes enemy combatants to lay down arms, said in spring: "We reliably know the personal data of over a thousand Cubans who signed contracts with the Russian armed forces in the past two years."

The Cuban authorities commented of Cuban nationals who might be involved: "Undeniably that not a single one possesses the support, dedication, or authorization of the Cuban authorities for their actions."

Family members of Cuban nationals who traveled to the Russian Federation in the year informed news outlets at the time that their family members had been deceptively recruited through ads on online platforms.