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Ukrainian drones have struck Russia's Bashneft facility in Ufa, positioned some 1,400 kilometres from Ukraine, causing detonations and a blaze, per a source in the Ukrainian SBU.

This constitutes the latest Ukrainian security service long-range attack in the region in the recent weeks. Those strikes demonstrate that there are no secure zones in the distant backlines of the Russia.

Zelenskyy Calls On Trump to Mediate Ceasefire in Ukraine

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

"Provided that a war can be halted in a particular zone, then surely additional conflicts can be stopped as well, covering the Russian war," Zelenskyy remarked, hailing Trump's "outstanding" Middle East truce proposal and requesting the President to pressure the Moscow into negotiations.

Moscow's Assaults Take Lives in the Country

Russian attacks on Ukraine killed at least five people on the weekend and disrupted electricity to parts of Ukraine's southern Odesa area, as stated by authorities in Ukraine.

Two people were killed within a church in Kostyantynivka when it was hit, according to regional officials.

In the Russian adjacent territory of Belgorod, a vehicle operator was fatally wounded by a Ukrainian strike, according to municipal sources.

Electricity Repair Efforts in the Capital

Efforts continued on Saturday to recover electricity in Kyiv, after Russian attacks.

Energy had been recovered to in excess of 800,000 residents by the weekend and the major private energy company said the primary efforts to repair the grid was finished though some outages persisted.

Air Defence Efforts and Drone Interceptions

The Ukrainian air defences downed or disrupted 54 out of 78 total enemy drones launched against the country during the night, the military reported on the weekend.

The Russian defence ministry claimed it intercepted 42 UAVs from Ukraine over the country's airspace.

Cuban Government Refutes Allegations of Sending Soldiers to Ukraine

The Cuban government on the weekend denied US assertions it has sent soldiers to participate in the Ukraine war, while declaring the government "lack accurate information about citizens of Cuba" involved "voluntarily" or "within the troops of either party".

The foreign ministry in the capital announced 26 Cubans had been convicted to jail sentences ranging from five up to fourteen years for mercenary involvement since last September when news circulated of Cuban nationals being deployed to the frontlines in the conflict.

Surrender Initiative Initiative Reports Data on Cuban National Recruitment

I Want to Live, a state program that promotes opposing fighters to surrender, stated in spring: "We reliably know the identities and information of one thousand and twenty-eight individuals who enlisted with the Moscow's troops in recently."

The Cuban authorities stated of those who might be engaged: "Undeniably that none of them possesses the support, allegiance, or consent of the Cuban authorities for their actions."

Kin of Cuban nationals who departed to Russia in the year informed Agence France-Presse at the time that their loved ones had been misled into enlisting through promotions on digital networks.