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Ukraine's UAVs have hit the Russian oil facility in Ufa, situated approximately 1,400 kilometers from Ukraine, causing explosions and a fire, per a insider in Ukraine's intelligence agency.

This constitutes 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 Russian Federation.

Ukrainian President Calls On Trump to Mediate Peace in Ukraine

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

"If a conflict can be halted in a particular zone, then undoubtedly additional conflicts can be ended as well, encompassing the Russian war," Zelenskyy remarked, praising Trump's "exceptional" Middle East truce proposal and urging the President to pressure the Russian government into talks.

Moscow's Attacks Kill Lives in the Country

Moscow's assaults on Ukrainian territory killed at least several civilians on the weekend and disrupted electricity to areas of Ukraine's south Odesa region, per Ukrainian officials.

Two civilians were killed in a church in Kostyantynivka when it was hit, per municipal sources.

In the Russian frontier area of Belgorod, a lorry operator was lost his life by a drone assault, according to local officials.

Energy Recovery Operations in Kyiv

Operations carried on on Saturday to repair energy infrastructure in Kyiv, after Russian attacks.

Energy had been recovered to more than 800,000 citizens by the weekend and the biggest power firm stated the main efforts to repair the grid was finished though some outages continued.

Anti-Aircraft Actions and UAV Interceptions

The Ukrainian anti-aircraft systems intercepted or jammed fifty-four of 78 UAVs from Russia deployed targeting the country during the night, the military announced on the weekend.

The Russian defense officials said it shot down 42 drones over Russian territory.

Cuba Refutes Allegations of Deploying Troops to Ukraine

Havana on the weekend denied US claims it has provided military personnel to participate in the conflict in Ukraine, while declaring officials in Havana "lack exact details about Cuban nationals" involved "voluntarily" or "within the troops of the conflicting parties".

The foreign ministry in Havana said twenty-six Cuban citizens had been sentenced to incarceration ranging from five to 14 years for participating as mercenaries since September 2023 when information circulated of Cubans being dispatched to the battlefield in Ukraine.

Surrender Initiative Project Discloses Information on Cuban National Recruitment

I Want to Live, a official Kyiv project that promotes opposing fighters to give up, reported in spring: "Our information indicates the identities and information of 1,028 Cubans who entered into agreements with the Russian military in recently."

The Cuban authorities stated of those who might be engaged: "There is no doubt that no individual has the support, commitment, or authorization of the Cuban authorities for their activities."

Family members of Cuban nationals who traveled to Russia in 2023 reported to international media at the time that their relatives had been deceptively recruited through promotions on social media.