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Ukrainian drones have targeted the Russian Bashneft facility in the city of Ufa, positioned approximately 1,400 km from the Ukrainian border, triggering detonations and a fire, per a source in Ukraine's intelligence agency.

This marks the latest SBU long-range attack in the region in the recent weeks. Those strikes show that there are no protected areas in the distant backlines of the Russian Federation.

Ukrainian President Appeals to Trump to Facilitate Peace in Ukraine

The Ukrainian leader urged the US President to facilitate a truce in the Ukrainian conflict during a telephone conversation on Saturday.

"When a hostilities can be halted in a single area, then certainly further hostilities can be stopped as well, covering the Russian aggression," the President stated, commending Trump's "outstanding" Middle East truce proposal and requesting the President to influence the Russian government into talks.

Russian Attacks Claim Lives in the Country

Moscow's assaults on Ukrainian territory resulted in the deaths of several civilians on Saturday and disrupted electricity to areas of the southern Odesa area, as stated by authorities in Ukraine.

Two people lost their lives inside a church in Kostyantynivka when it was hit, per local authorities.

In the Russian frontier area of the Belgorod region, a vehicle operator was killed by a Ukrainian strike, as stated by local officials.

Electricity Recovery Operations in Kyiv

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

Electricity had been restored to more than 800,000 inhabitants by Saturday and the major utility provider stated the main efforts to recover electricity was finished though partial blackouts remained.

Air Defence Efforts and UAV Jamming

Ukraine's defense forces downed or disrupted 54 of seventy-eight Russian drones launched against the country in the dark hours, the military reported on Saturday.

Russia's defense officials claimed it intercepted 42 Ukrainian drones over the country's airspace.

Cuba Denies Allegations of Deploying Troops to the War

Havana on the weekend refuted American allegations it has deployed soldiers to participate in the hostilities, while declaring Cuban authorities "do not have accurate data about individuals" engaged "independently" or "as part of the armed units of either party".

The government department in the capital announced 26 Cuban citizens had been given prison terms to prison terms from 5 to 14 years for mercenary activity since September 2023 when news circulated of Cubans being sent to the frontlines in the conflict.

I Want to Live Initiative Reveals Details on Cuban National Involvement

The surrender initiative, a official Kyiv initiative that encourages enemy combatants to surrender, reported in spring: "Our information indicates the personal data of over a thousand Cubans who entered into agreements with the Moscow's troops in recently."

The government in Havana commented of those who might be involved: "There is no doubt that none of them have the backing, commitment, or consent of the government in Havana for their activities."

Relatives of Cubans who departed to the Russian Federation in 2023 told Agence France-Presse at the time that their relatives had been misled into enlisting through ads on online platforms.