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Ukrainian drones have targeted Russia's oil processing plant in Ufa, located around 1,400 kilometres from the Ukrainian border, causing blasts and a inferno, as reported by a insider in Ukraine's SBU.

This represents the third SBU long-range attack in Bashkortostan in the past month. Such attacks demonstrate that there are no safe places in the distant backlines of the Russia.

Ukrainian President Urges US President to Broker Ceasefire in Ukraine

The Ukrainian leader urged Donald Trump to mediate a ceasefire in the Ukrainian conflict over a phone call on Saturday.

"Provided that a war can be halted in a particular zone, then undoubtedly additional conflicts can be halted as well, covering the Russian war," the President remarked, praising Trump's "outstanding" Middle East truce proposal and calling for the US president to pressure the Moscow into discussions.

Moscow's Attacks Take Victims in the Country

Moscow's assaults on Ukrainian territory claimed the lives of several civilians on the weekend and disrupted electricity to sections of the south Odesa area, per Ukrainian officials.

Two civilians were killed within a church in Kostyantynivka when it was targeted, per regional officials.

In the Russian border region of the Belgorod region, a truck driver was fatally wounded by a Ukrainian strike, per municipal sources.

Energy Repair Operations in Kyiv

Work proceeded on the weekend to restore power in the Ukrainian capital, after strikes by Moscow.

Electricity had been recovered to more than 800,000 inhabitants by the weekend and the major utility provider announced the key work to repair the grid was finished though partial blackouts remained.

Anti-Aircraft Actions and Drone Jamming

Ukraine's defense forces intercepted or jammed fifty-four of 78 total Russian drones launched targeting the country in the dark hours, the aerial defense command said on the weekend.

The Russian defence ministry claimed it intercepted forty-two UAVs from Ukraine over Russian territory.

Cuba Rejects Accusations of Sending Soldiers to Ukraine

Cuba on Saturday refuted American assertions it has sent military personnel to participate in the conflict in Ukraine, while declaring officials in Havana "do not have precise information about Cuban nationals" engaged "on their own" or "within the troops of both sides".

The foreign ministry in the capital said 26 nationals had been sentenced to jail sentences from five up to fourteen years for participating as mercenaries since last September when news spread of Cuban nationals being deployed to the front in Ukraine.

I Want to Live Initiative Discloses Information on Cuban Recruitment

I Want to Live, a Ukrainian government project that encourages adversaries to give up, said in spring: "We have confirmed the personal data of over a thousand Cuban nationals who enlisted with the Russian military in 2023-2024."

The Cuban authorities stated of those who might be engaged: "Undeniably that no individual has the encouragement, allegiance, or authorization of the government in Havana for their activities."

Family members of Cubans who departed to the Russian Federation in 2023 reported to international media at the time that their loved ones had been tricked into joining through ads on digital networks.