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Ukraine's unmanned aerial vehicles have targeted the Russian oil facility in Ufa, situated approximately 1,400 km from Ukraine, triggering detonations and a fire, according to a insider in the Ukrainian SBU.

This constitutes the latest intelligence far-reaching assault in Bashkortostan in the last month. Such attacks show that there are no safe places in the distant backlines of the Russian state.

Zelenskyy Appeals to Trump to Broker Truce in Ukraine

The Ukrainian leader appealed to the US President to facilitate a truce in the Ukrainian conflict over a call on the weekend.

"If a hostilities can be stopped in a single area, then surely additional conflicts can be stopped as well, encompassing the conflict with Russia," he said, praising Trump's "remarkable" Gaza peace initiative and urging the American leader to compel the Russian government into negotiations.

Russian Strikes Kill Lives in Ukraine

Strikes by Russia on Ukrainian territory resulted in the deaths of five people on Saturday and caused blackouts to areas of Ukraine's southern Odesa area, as stated by Ukrainian officials.

Two people lost their lives inside a religious building in Kostyantynivka when it was struck, per regional officials.

In the Russian border region of the Belgorod region, a truck driver was fatally wounded by a Ukrainian strike, per regional authorities.

Electricity Recovery Operations in Kyiv

Work continued on Saturday to recover electricity in Kyiv, after assaults.

Energy had been returned to more than 800,000 residents by the weekend and the largest private energy company said the main operations to repair the grid was finished though certain disruptions persisted.

Anti-Aircraft Operations and Drone Jamming

The Ukrainian anti-aircraft systems neutralized 54 of seventy-eight Russian drones sent targeting the country during the night, the air force reported on the weekend.

The Russian military authorities claimed it shot down forty-two drones over its own soil.

Cuba Refutes Allegations of Sending Forces to the War

Havana on Saturday rejected American assertions it has sent military personnel to fight in the hostilities, while declaring officials in Havana "do not have precise data about individuals" involved "independently" or "in the military forces of the conflicting parties".

The ministry in the capital stated 26 Cuban citizens had been sentenced to jail sentences varying between five up to fourteen years for mercenary activity since September 2023 when news spread of individuals being deployed to the battlefield in Ukraine.

Surrender Initiative Program Reports Data on Cuban Enlistment

The surrender initiative, a official Kyiv project that promotes adversaries to lay down arms, reported in spring: "Our information indicates the identities and information of 1,028 individuals who enlisted with the Russian armed forces in the past two years."

The Cuban foreign ministry said of those who might be engaged: "Undeniably that no individual has the encouragement, commitment, or authorization of the Cuban authorities for their activities."

Relatives of Cuban nationals who traveled to the Russian Federation in 2023 informed international media at the time that their loved ones had been misled into enlisting through advertisements on social media.