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Ukraine's drones have targeted the Russian Bashneft processing plant in Ufa, positioned some 1,400 km from Ukraine, causing detonations and a blaze, as reported by a source in Ukraine's SBU.

This represents the 3rd intelligence long-range attack in Bashkortostan in the last month. Those strikes show that there are no secure zones in the distant backlines of the Russian Federation.

Ukrainian President Calls On Trump to Broker Peace in Ukraine

Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on Donald Trump to broker peace in Ukraine during a phone call on Saturday.

"When a hostilities can be stopped in a particular zone, then certainly additional conflicts can be stopped as well, including the conflict with Russia," Zelenskyy stated, hailing Trump's "outstanding" Middle East ceasefire plan and calling for the President to compel the Russian government into discussions.

Moscow's Attacks Take Victims in the Country

Moscow's assaults on Ukraine killed at least several civilians on the weekend and disrupted electricity to parts of Ukraine's south Odesa oblast, according to authorities in Ukraine.

Two civilians were killed within a church in Kostyantynivka when it was hit, per municipal sources.

In the Russian frontier area of the Belgorod region, a lorry operator was killed by a drone assault, as stated by regional authorities.

Electricity Recovery Efforts in Kyiv

Operations carried on on Saturday to restore power in Kyiv, after Russian attacks.

Power had been returned to more than 800,000 residents by Saturday and the major power firm said the main efforts to recover electricity was complete though some outages continued.

Anti-Aircraft Actions and Drone Jamming

The Ukrainian defense forces downed or disrupted 54 out of 78 UAVs from Russia deployed targeting the country in the dark hours, the aerial defense command announced on the weekend.

The Russian defence ministry claimed it eliminated 42 Ukrainian drones over the country's airspace.

Cuba Refutes Allegations of Deploying Forces to Ukraine

The Cuban government on the weekend denied US claims it has deployed military personnel to fight in the Ukraine war, while declaring officials in Havana "do not have exact data about citizens of Cuba" involved "voluntarily" or "in the military forces of either party".

The government department in the capital said twenty-six Cuban citizens had been convicted to jail sentences varying between five to 14 years for mercenary activity since the autumn of 2023 when news spread of Cuban nationals being sent to the front in the conflict.

I Want to Live Project Discloses Details on Cuban National Involvement

The program, a official Kyiv program that urges adversaries to lay down arms, stated in spring: "We reliably know the identities and information of over a thousand individuals who enlisted with the Russian armed forces in 2023-2024."

The government in Havana stated of Cubans who might be participating: "It is irrefutable that no individual possesses the backing, commitment, or authorization of the Cuban authorities for their activities."

Family members of Cuban nationals who departed to Russia in the year informed international media at the time that their loved ones had been deceptively recruited through ads on digital networks.