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Ukrainian drones have struck the Russian Bashneft refinery in the city of Ufa, positioned around 1,400 km from the Ukrainian border, causing detonations and a blaze, per a insider in the Ukrainian intelligence agency.

This represents the latest Ukrainian security service far-reaching assault in Bashkortostan in the past month. Those attacks demonstrate that there are no protected areas in the distant backlines of the Russian Federation.

Ukrainian President Calls On US President to Facilitate Peace in Ukraine

Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged President Trump to mediate a ceasefire in the Ukrainian conflict in a call on the weekend.

"Provided that a war can be ended in a single area, then certainly other wars can be stopped as well, including the conflict with Russia," he remarked, commending Trump's "remarkable" Gaza truce proposal and urging the American leader to pressure the Kremlin into negotiations.

Moscow's Strikes Take Victims in Ukraine

Russian attacks on Ukraine claimed the lives of several civilians on the weekend and cut power to sections of Ukraine's southern Odesa area, according to local sources.

Two civilians were killed in a place of worship in Kostyantynivka when it was struck, as reported by regional officials.

In Russia's border region of Belgorod, a vehicle operator was lost his life by a drone assault, according to municipal sources.

Power Repair Operations in the Capital

Operations carried on on Saturday to restore power in Kyiv, after assaults.

Power had been restored to over 800,000 citizens by Saturday and the largest utility provider announced the primary efforts to repair the grid was concluded though some outages remained.

Anti-Aircraft Operations and Drone Downings

The Ukrainian anti-aircraft systems intercepted or jammed fifty-four of 78 Russian drones launched targeting the country overnight, the aerial defense command reported on Saturday.

The Russian defence ministry stated it eliminated forty-two drones over its own soil.

Cuba Rejects Allegations of Providing Forces to the War

The Cuban government on the weekend rejected American claims it has sent soldiers to engage in the Ukraine war, while affirming the government "are without exact information about Cuban nationals" participating "voluntarily" or "within the troops of either party".

The ministry in Havana stated 26 Cubans had been convicted to jail sentences from five up to fourteen years for participating as mercenaries since September 2023 when reports spread of individuals being deployed to the battlefield in Ukraine.

I Want to Live Project Discloses Information on Cuban National Involvement

The surrender initiative, a official Kyiv project that urges opposing fighters to surrender, said in spring: "We have confirmed the personal data of one thousand and twenty-eight individuals who enlisted with the Moscow's troops in the past two years."

The Cuban authorities stated of Cuban nationals who might be participating: "Undeniably that none of them has the backing, dedication, or consent of the Cuban authorities for their activities."

Kin of Cuban nationals who departed to Russia in the year reported to news outlets at the time that their relatives had been tricked into joining through ads on social media.