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Ukrainian UAVs have targeted the Russian oil refinery in the city of Ufa, located around 1,400 kilometers from Ukraine, triggering detonations and a inferno, as reported by a insider in the Ukrainian intelligence agency.

This represents the latest intelligence deep strike in the region in the recent weeks. Those attacks demonstrate that there are no safe places in the distant backlines of the Russia.

Zelenskyy Appeals to Trump to Broker Truce in the Conflict

Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on Donald Trump to mediate a ceasefire in Ukraine over a phone call on the weekend.

"If a war can be ended in one region, then surely additional conflicts can be stopped as well, covering the Russian war," Zelenskyy stated, hailing Trump's "exceptional" Gaza peace initiative and urging the President to influence the Moscow into talks.

Moscow's Assaults Take Lives in the Country

Moscow's assaults on Ukrainian territory resulted in the deaths of 5 individuals on the weekend and caused blackouts to sections of Ukraine's south Odesa area, as stated by local sources.

A pair of individuals died inside a religious building in Kostyantynivka when it was targeted, as reported by local authorities.

In the Russian frontier area of the Belgorod region, a vehicle operator was fatally wounded by a attack from Ukraine, according to municipal sources.

Energy Repair Work in Kyiv

Operations continued on Saturday to recover electricity in the Ukrainian capital, after strikes by Moscow.

Energy had been restored to more than 800,000 citizens by the weekend and the largest utility provider stated the key operations to repair the grid was finished though partial blackouts continued.

Anti-Aircraft Efforts and Drone Jamming

The Ukrainian air defences intercepted or jammed 54 of 78 total enemy drones sent targeting Ukraine overnight, the military said on Saturday.

The Russian military authorities stated it intercepted 42 enemy UAVs from Ukraine over Russian territory.

Cuban Government Denies Accusations of Deploying Forces to the War

Cuba on Saturday denied US allegations it has provided military personnel to participate in the conflict in Ukraine, while affirming the government "lack exact information about individuals" participating "voluntarily" or "within the troops of either party".

The ministry in the capital announced twenty-six Cuban citizens had been given prison terms to prison terms varying between five up to fourteen years for mercenary activity since last September when news emerged of Cubans being sent to the battlefield in the conflict.

I Want to Live Initiative Reports Data on Cuban National Involvement

The surrender initiative, a state program that urges opposing fighters to give up, said in May: "Our information indicates the identities and information of one thousand and twenty-eight Cubans who signed contracts with the Russian armed forces in 2023-2024."

The government in Havana commented of Cubans who might be participating: "There is no doubt that not a single one has the support, allegiance, or approval of the Cuban authorities for their actions."

Relatives of Cuban nationals who left for the Russian Federation in the year told Agence France-Presse at the time that their relatives had been misled into enlisting through ads on digital networks.