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Ukraine's UAVs have struck Russia's Bashneft facility in the city of Ufa, positioned some 1,400 kilometres from Ukraine, resulting in explosions and a blaze, per a insider in Ukraine's intelligence agency.

This marks the latest SBU deep strike in Bashkortostan in the past month. Those attacks demonstrate that there are no secure zones in the deep rear of the Russia.

Ukrainian President Calls On Trump to Mediate Truce in Ukraine

The Ukrainian leader urged Donald Trump to broker peace in the Ukrainian conflict in a telephone conversation on Saturday.

"When a war can be ended in a particular zone, then undoubtedly further hostilities can be ended as well, covering the Russian aggression," Zelenskyy stated, praising the US President's "exceptional" Gaza truce proposal and requesting the President to pressure the Kremlin into talks.

Moscow's Strikes Take Victims in the Country

Russian attacks on Ukrainian territory killed at least 5 individuals on the weekend and cut power to parts of Ukraine's south Odesa area, as stated by authorities in Ukraine.

Two civilians died in a place of worship in Kostyantynivka when it was hit, as reported by municipal sources.

In Russia's frontier area of Belgorod, a lorry operator was killed by a attack from Ukraine, according to regional authorities.

Power Restoration Efforts in the Capital

Efforts carried on on the weekend to recover electricity in the Ukrainian capital, after strikes by Moscow.

Electricity had been returned to over 800,000 inhabitants by Saturday and the major utility provider stated the main operations to repair the grid was finished though some outages remained.

Anti-Aircraft Operations and UAV Interceptions

Ukraine's air defences downed or disrupted 54 of 78 enemy drones deployed targeting Ukraine overnight, the military said on Saturday.

The Russian defense officials said it shot down forty-two UAVs from Ukraine over Russian territory.

Cuban Government Refutes Accusations of Providing Troops to Ukraine

Havana on Saturday refuted American assertions it has provided soldiers to engage in the Ukraine war, while affirming officials in Havana "lack exact details about individuals" engaged "on their own" or "as part of the armed units of either party".

The ministry in Havana said twenty-six Cuban citizens had been convicted to incarceration varying between 5 to 14 years for mercenary activity since the autumn of 2023 when reports circulated of individuals being sent to the battlefield in Ukraine.

Surrender Initiative Initiative Reveals Details on Cuban National Enlistment

The surrender initiative, a official Kyiv initiative that promotes adversaries to give up, stated in spring: "We reliably know the identities and information of one thousand and twenty-eight Cubans who enlisted with the Russian armed forces in the past two years."

The Cuban foreign ministry stated of Cuban nationals who might be participating: "It is irrefutable that no individual have the support, commitment, or consent of the Cuban authorities for their activities."

Kin of individuals who traveled to the Russian Federation in the year informed Agence France-Presse at the time that their relatives had been misled into enlisting through ads on online platforms.