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Ukraine's unmanned aerial vehicles have targeted Russia's Bashneft processing plant in Ufa, situated around 1,400 km from Ukraine, triggering blasts and a inferno, according to a source in the Ukrainian SBU.

This represents the latest SBU far-reaching assault in the region in the recent weeks. Those strikes show that there are no secure zones in the far hinterland of the Russian state.

Ukrainian President Appeals to Trump to Mediate Truce in Ukraine

The Ukrainian leader appealed to Donald Trump to facilitate a truce in the Ukrainian conflict over a phone call on the weekend.

"When a conflict can be ended in one region, then surely further hostilities can be ended as well, covering the Russian aggression," Zelenskyy remarked, hailing the US President's "remarkable" Gaza peace initiative and urging the American leader to influence the Moscow into discussions.

Russian Attacks Take Lives in Ukraine

Moscow's assaults on Ukrainian territory resulted in the deaths of several civilians on the weekend and cut power to sections of Ukraine's southern Odesa oblast, according to local sources.

A pair of individuals lost their lives inside a church in Kostyantynivka when it was hit, according to local authorities.

In Russia's adjacent territory of Belgorod, a truck driver was killed by a attack from Ukraine, as stated by regional authorities.

Power Repair Work in Kyiv

Operations carried on on the weekend to restore power in the Ukrainian capital, after Russian attacks.

Energy had been returned to more than 800,000 citizens by the weekend and the largest power firm announced the primary work to restore power was finished though certain disruptions continued.

Air Defence Operations and UAV Downings

The Ukrainian air defences intercepted or jammed 54 out of 78 UAVs from Russia sent towards Ukraine during the night, the air force reported on Saturday.

Russia's defense officials claimed it shot down forty-two drones over its own soil.

Cuban Government Rejects Accusations of Sending Troops to the War

The Cuban government on the weekend refuted US claims it has deployed soldiers to engage in the Ukraine war, while affirming the government "do not have accurate details about Cuban nationals" involved "on their own" or "within the troops of the conflicting parties".

The foreign ministry in the capital stated 26 Cuban citizens had been given prison terms to incarceration ranging from five up to fourteen years for mercenary activity since last September when information spread of Cuban nationals being dispatched to the battlefield in Ukraine.

I Want to Live Project Discloses Details on Cuban Enlistment

I Want to Live, a official Kyiv project that encourages opposing fighters to give up, said in spring: "We have confirmed the identities and information of over a thousand Cubans who signed contracts with the Russian military in recently."

The government in Havana commented of Cuban nationals who might be involved: "Undeniably that not a single one has the encouragement, commitment, or approval of the Cuban state for their actions."

Relatives of Cuban nationals who left for Russia in the year reported to international media at the time that their relatives had been misled into enlisting through advertisements on social media.