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Ukraine's UAVs have targeted Russia's Bashneft refinery in Ufa, located approximately 1,400 kilometres from the Ukrainian border, triggering detonations and a fire, per a source in Ukraine's Security Service.

This constitutes the latest SBU deep strike in Bashkortostan in the last month. Those attacks demonstrate that there are no protected areas in the distant backlines of the Russian state.

Ukrainian President Calls On US President to Mediate Truce in the Conflict

The Ukrainian leader appealed to Donald Trump to broker peace in Ukraine over a telephone conversation on the weekend.

"When a conflict can be stopped in a particular zone, then surely further hostilities can be ended as well, encompassing the Russian war," he remarked, hailing the US President's "remarkable" Gaza truce proposal and requesting the President to compel the Russian government into negotiations.

Russian Assaults Claim Casualties in Ukraine

Strikes by Russia on Ukrainian territory killed at least 5 individuals on Saturday and disrupted electricity to sections of the southern Odesa area, per authorities in Ukraine.

A pair of individuals were killed inside a religious building in the town when it was targeted, per municipal sources.

In Russia's border region of the Belgorod region, a lorry operator was killed by a drone assault, as stated by regional authorities.

Power Restoration Operations in the Capital

Operations carried on on the weekend to repair energy infrastructure in the Ukrainian capital, after strikes by Moscow.

Energy had been recovered to in excess of 800,000 residents by the weekend and the largest power firm said the key operations to repair the grid was finished though some outages continued.

Air Defence Efforts and UAV Interceptions

The Ukrainian air defences intercepted or jammed 54 out of seventy-eight UAVs from Russia deployed against Ukraine overnight, the aerial defense command said on Saturday.

The Russian defense officials stated it intercepted forty-two UAVs from Ukraine over its own soil.

Cuba Refutes Accusations of Providing Forces to Ukraine

The Cuban government on Saturday denied US claims it has sent troops to participate in the conflict in Ukraine, while declaring Cuban authorities "lack accurate information about Cuban nationals" participating "on their own" or "as part of the armed units of both sides".

The ministry in Havana said 26 Cuban citizens had been convicted to incarceration from 5 to 14 years for mercenary activity since last September when reports circulated of Cubans being sent to the front in the conflict.

Surrender Initiative Initiative Discloses Information on Cuban National Involvement

I Want to Live, a official Kyiv initiative that urges enemy combatants to give up, said in May: "We have confirmed the personal data of one thousand and twenty-eight Cubans who enlisted with the Moscow's troops in recently."

The Cuban foreign ministry stated of Cubans who might be participating: "It is irrefutable that no individual has the support, dedication, or consent of the government in Havana for their actions."

Relatives of Cubans who departed to Russia in 2023 informed international media at the time that their family members had been deceptively recruited through promotions on social media.