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Ukrainian UAVs have hit Russia's Bashneft facility in the city of Ufa, situated around 1,400 km from the Ukrainian border, triggering explosions and a blaze, per a insider in Ukraine's SBU.

This marks the latest intelligence deep strike in Bashkortostan in the recent weeks. Such attacks demonstrate that there are no secure zones in the distant backlines of the Russian Federation.

Ukrainian President Calls On Trump to Mediate Truce in the Conflict

President Zelenskyy urged Donald Trump to broker peace in the Ukrainian conflict in a phone call on the weekend.

"When a hostilities can be ended in a single area, then surely additional conflicts can be halted as well, covering the conflict with Russia," Zelenskyy said, commending Trump's "outstanding" Gaza ceasefire plan and urging the US president to influence the Russian government into negotiations.

Russian Attacks Claim Lives in Ukraine

Russian attacks on Ukraine claimed the lives of several civilians on Saturday and disrupted electricity to parts of the southern Odesa oblast, according to Ukrainian officials.

A pair of individuals lost their lives within a place of worship in the town when it was targeted, per regional officials.

In Russia's adjacent territory of the Belgorod region, a lorry operator was lost his life by a attack from Ukraine, as stated by municipal sources.

Electricity Restoration Operations in the Capital

Efforts continued on Saturday to recover electricity in the Ukrainian capital, after Russian attacks.

Energy had been recovered to over 800,000 inhabitants by the weekend and the biggest private energy company said the primary operations to recover electricity was finished though some outages remained.

Anti-Aircraft Actions and Drone Jamming

Ukraine's air defences intercepted or jammed 54 of seventy-eight enemy drones sent towards Ukraine during the night, the military announced on the weekend.

Russia's military authorities said it shot down forty-two drones over its own soil.

Cuban Government Rejects Claims of Sending Troops to the War

The Cuban government on the weekend refuted US allegations it has sent troops to fight in the conflict in Ukraine, while stating Cuban authorities "do not have accurate details about individuals" engaged "voluntarily" or "in the military forces of both sides".

The government department in the capital stated twenty-six Cubans had been convicted to prison terms varying between five up to fourteen years for participating as mercenaries since last September when news emerged of individuals being deployed to the frontlines in the conflict.

I Want to Live Project Discloses Information on Cuban Recruitment

The surrender initiative, a state program that urges enemy combatants to give up, said in May: "Our information indicates the personal data of over a thousand individuals who enlisted with the Russian military in the past two years."

The Cuban authorities said of those who might be involved: "It is irrefutable that none of them have the encouragement, commitment, or approval of the Cuban authorities for their involvement."

Relatives of Cubans who traveled to Russia in 2023 informed Agence France-Presse at the time that their loved ones had been misled into enlisting through advertisements on online platforms.