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Ukraine's unmanned aerial vehicles have targeted Russia's Bashneft refinery in Ufa, located some 1,400 km from the Ukrainian border, triggering blasts and a fire, per a source in Ukraine's SBU.

This constitutes the latest SBU far-reaching assault in Bashkortostan in the recent weeks. Those operations illustrate that there are no safe places in the deep rear of the Russia.

Ukrainian President Appeals to US President to Mediate Truce in Ukraine

Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on Donald Trump to facilitate a truce in the Ukrainian conflict in a call on Saturday.

"Provided that a conflict can be stopped in a single area, then surely other wars can be stopped as well, covering the Russian war," he said, praising Trump's "exceptional" Middle East peace initiative and urging the American leader to compel the Russian government into talks.

Moscow's Strikes Kill Victims in the Country

Strikes by Russia on Ukrainian territory resulted in the deaths of five people on the weekend and caused blackouts to parts of the southern Odesa region, as stated by authorities in Ukraine.

A pair of individuals died within a church in Kostyantynivka when it was struck, according to municipal sources.

In Russia's adjacent territory of Belgorod, a lorry operator was killed by a drone assault, per regional authorities.

Energy Repair Operations in the Capital

Efforts carried on on the weekend to restore power in Kyiv, after strikes by Moscow.

Energy had been returned to in excess of 800,000 inhabitants by Saturday and the largest private energy company announced the key efforts to recover electricity was concluded though some outages persisted.

Air Defence Efforts and UAV Interceptions

Ukraine's anti-aircraft systems intercepted or jammed fifty-four of 78 total Russian drones deployed against Ukraine during the night, the air force reported on Saturday.

Russia's defense officials claimed it intercepted forty-two Ukrainian drones over its own soil.

Cuba Rejects Claims of Sending Soldiers to the War

The Cuban government on Saturday denied American assertions it has sent troops to participate in the Ukraine war, while declaring officials in Havana "do not have accurate details about individuals" involved "on their own" or "as part of the armed units of both sides".

The ministry in the capital said 26 Cubans had been given prison terms to incarceration ranging from five up to fourteen years for mercenary activity since last September when news emerged of Cubans being dispatched to the battlefield in the conflict.

I Want to Live Program Reports Details on Cuban National Enlistment

I Want to Live, a official Kyiv project that urges opposing fighters to surrender, stated in May: "We reliably know the identities and information of over a thousand Cuban nationals who entered into agreements with the Russian military in the past two years."

The Cuban foreign ministry commented of those who might be engaged: "It is irrefutable that none of them have the support, commitment, or authorization of the Cuban authorities for their activities."

Family members of Cuban nationals who traveled to Russia in 2023 told news outlets at the time that their loved ones had been misled into enlisting through advertisements on online platforms.