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Ukrainian UAVs have hit the Russian oil refinery in Ufa, located around 1,400 kilometres from the Ukrainian border, resulting in explosions and a inferno, as reported by a source in Ukraine's Security Service.

This represents the 3rd Ukrainian security service long-range attack in the region in the last month. Such operations demonstrate that there are no safe places in the distant backlines of the Russian Federation.

Zelenskyy Urges Trump to Mediate Peace in Ukraine

The Ukrainian leader called on the US President to broker peace in the Ukrainian conflict in a call on the weekend.

"If a conflict can be halted in one region, then surely additional conflicts can be halted as well, covering the conflict with Russia," Zelenskyy said, praising Trump's "remarkable" Gaza ceasefire plan and urging the US president to influence the Moscow into negotiations.

Russian Assaults Claim Casualties in the Country

Strikes by Russia on Ukraine resulted in the deaths of several civilians on the weekend and cut power to areas of the south Odesa oblast, as stated by local sources.

Two people died within a religious building in Kostyantynivka when it was targeted, as reported by municipal sources.

In Russia's frontier area of the Belgorod region, a truck driver was fatally wounded by a drone assault, according to regional authorities.

Energy Restoration Efforts in the Capital

Operations continued on Saturday to restore power in Kyiv, after Russian attacks.

Electricity had been restored to over 800,000 residents by the weekend and the biggest utility provider announced the key operations to recover electricity was finished though some outages remained.

Anti-Aircraft Operations and Drone Jamming

The Ukrainian air defences neutralized 54 out of 78 total enemy drones sent against the country during the night, the military reported on the weekend.

The Russian military authorities stated it eliminated forty-two Ukrainian drones over its own soil.

Cuba Rejects Accusations of Sending Troops to Ukraine

Havana on Saturday denied American assertions it has sent soldiers to fight in the conflict in Ukraine, while affirming Cuban authorities "lack accurate details about Cuban nationals" involved "on their own" or "within the troops of either party".

The foreign ministry in Havana announced 26 nationals had been given prison terms to jail sentences varying between five to 14 years for participating as mercenaries since the autumn of 2023 when news circulated of individuals being sent to the front in the conflict.

I Want to Live Project Discloses Information on Cuban Involvement

The surrender initiative, a Ukrainian government project that promotes opposing fighters to surrender, stated in spring: "Our information indicates the identities and information of over a thousand individuals who entered into agreements with the Russian armed forces in the past two years."

The government in Havana said of those who might be involved: "There is no doubt that no individual have the support, allegiance, or consent of the Cuban state for their activities."

Relatives of Cuban nationals who traveled to Russia in 2023 informed Agence France-Presse at the time that their loved ones had been misled into enlisting through ads on online platforms.