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Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have struck the Russian Bashneft processing plant in Ufa, located around 1,400 kilometers from Ukraine, triggering explosions and a blaze, per a source in the Ukrainian Security Service.

This marks the third intelligence deep strike in the region in the past month. Those operations show that there are no protected areas in the distant backlines of the Russian Federation.

Zelenskyy Appeals to US President to Mediate Ceasefire in the Conflict

The Ukrainian leader called on the US President to facilitate a truce in Ukraine over a phone call on Saturday.

"When a conflict can be halted in a single area, then surely other wars can be stopped as well, including the conflict with Russia," the President remarked, hailing the US President's "remarkable" Middle East peace initiative and urging the President to compel the Russian government into discussions.

Moscow's Assaults Take Lives in Ukraine

Strikes by Russia on Ukraine killed at least 5 individuals on the weekend and disrupted electricity to parts of Ukraine's south Odesa region, per Ukrainian officials.

Two people were killed inside a place of worship in the town when it was hit, per local authorities.

In the Russian border region of Belgorod, a vehicle operator was killed by a drone assault, as stated by municipal sources.

Electricity Restoration Operations in the Capital

Work proceeded on Saturday to repair energy infrastructure in the Ukrainian capital, after assaults.

Energy had been returned to in excess of 800,000 citizens by Saturday and the biggest private energy company announced the primary efforts to restore power was finished though some outages remained.

Air Defence Operations and UAV Jamming

Ukraine's defense forces intercepted or jammed 54 of seventy-eight Russian drones sent towards the country overnight, the air force said on the weekend.

The Russian military authorities stated it eliminated 42 enemy UAVs from Ukraine over its own soil.

Cuban Government Denies Accusations of Deploying Soldiers to the War

Cuba on Saturday denied American allegations it has sent military personnel to fight in the hostilities, while declaring officials in Havana "lack precise data about individuals" involved "on their own" or "in the military forces of the conflicting parties".

The government department in the capital announced 26 nationals had been convicted to prison terms from 5 to 14 years for participating as mercenaries since the autumn of 2023 when information circulated of Cubans being dispatched to the front in the conflict.

I Want to Live Program Reveals Data on Cuban National Enlistment

The program, a Ukrainian government program that urges enemy combatants to surrender, stated in May: "We reliably know the personal data of one thousand and twenty-eight Cubans who enlisted with the Russian armed forces in recently."

The government in Havana said of Cuban nationals who might be participating: "There is no doubt that no individual have the support, commitment, or authorization of the Cuban state for their activities."

Relatives of individuals who traveled to the Russian Federation in the year reported to Agence France-Presse at the time that their loved ones had been misled into enlisting through ads on social media.