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Ukrainian UAVs have targeted Russia's oil processing plant in the city of Ufa, situated around 1,400 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, resulting in detonations and a inferno, per a insider in Ukraine's Security Service.

This represents the 3rd intelligence deep strike in the region in the last month. Those attacks show that there are no secure zones in the distant backlines of the Russian state.

Ukrainian President Appeals to Trump to Broker Truce in the Conflict

The Ukrainian leader urged Donald Trump to broker peace in Ukraine in a phone call on Saturday.

"When a conflict can be ended in a single area, then surely further hostilities can be stopped as well, covering the Russian aggression," Zelenskyy said, hailing Trump's "outstanding" Gaza ceasefire plan and requesting the American leader to influence the Russian government into negotiations.

Russian Attacks Take Victims in Ukraine

Russian attacks on Ukraine resulted in the deaths of five people on the weekend and cut power to sections of the south Odesa oblast, as stated by local sources.

A pair of individuals were killed in a church in Kostyantynivka when it was targeted, according to regional officials.

In the Russian frontier area of the Belgorod region, a truck driver was lost his life by a attack from Ukraine, per local officials.

Electricity Repair Work in Kyiv

Efforts continued on Saturday to repair energy infrastructure in Kyiv, after strikes by Moscow.

Electricity had been returned to more than 800,000 residents by the weekend and the biggest private energy company stated the main work to repair the grid was concluded though certain disruptions remained.

Air Defence Operations and Drone Downings

The Ukrainian air defences downed or disrupted 54 of 78 total enemy drones launched towards the country overnight, the air force announced on the weekend.

Russia's military authorities stated it shot down 42 enemy UAVs from Ukraine over Russian territory.

Cuban Government Rejects Claims of Sending Forces to Ukraine

The Cuban government on Saturday denied American claims it has deployed military personnel to fight in the conflict in Ukraine, while affirming Cuban authorities "are without precise data about Cuban nationals" engaged "voluntarily" or "within the troops of either party".

The ministry in the capital said 26 nationals had been convicted to incarceration varying between 5 to 14 years for mercenary involvement since September 2023 when reports spread of Cuban nationals being sent to the battlefield in the conflict.

I Want to Live Program Reports Details on Cuban Involvement

The program, a state project that encourages adversaries to surrender, said in spring: "Our information indicates the personal data of one thousand and twenty-eight individuals who signed contracts with the Moscow's troops in the past two years."

The government in Havana commented of Cuban nationals who might be engaged: "There is no doubt that none of them have the encouragement, dedication, or consent of the Cuban state for their actions."

Kin of Cuban nationals who traveled to the Russian Federation in the year told international media at the time that their loved ones had been deceptively recruited through ads on digital networks.