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Ukraine's unmanned aerial vehicles have struck the Russian Bashneft facility in Ufa, located around 1,400 kilometers from Ukraine, causing blasts and a blaze, according to a insider in the Ukrainian intelligence agency.

This represents the latest intelligence long-range attack in Bashkortostan in the past month. Those strikes show that there are no secure zones in the distant backlines of the Russian Federation.

Ukrainian President Appeals to US President to Facilitate Peace in the Conflict

President Zelenskyy called on the US President to facilitate a truce in the Ukrainian conflict over a phone call on the weekend.

"Provided that a conflict can be ended in one region, then certainly other wars can be stopped as well, including the conflict with Russia," he remarked, hailing Trump's "outstanding" Middle East truce proposal and calling for the US president to pressure the Russian government into negotiations.

Moscow's Strikes Take Lives in Ukraine

Strikes by Russia on Ukrainian territory killed at least several civilians on the weekend and disrupted electricity to sections of the southern Odesa region, according to local sources.

A pair of individuals were killed within a church in the town when it was targeted, per regional officials.

In Russia's border region of Belgorod, a vehicle operator was killed by a attack from Ukraine, per municipal sources.

Electricity Restoration Operations in the Capital

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

Electricity had been recovered to more than 800,000 inhabitants by the weekend and the major power firm announced the main work to repair the grid was complete though some outages continued.

Anti-Aircraft Efforts and Drone Jamming

The Ukrainian air defences downed or disrupted 54 out of 78 total UAVs from Russia sent against the country during the night, the air force said on Saturday.

Russia's defence ministry claimed it eliminated 42 drones over its own soil.

Cuban Government Rejects Claims of Sending Soldiers to the War

The Cuban government on the weekend refuted US assertions it has provided soldiers to fight in the hostilities, while stating officials in Havana "do not have accurate data about individuals" engaged "voluntarily" or "in the military forces of both sides".

The ministry in Havana said twenty-six nationals had been given prison terms to incarceration from five up to fourteen years for participating as mercenaries since last September when news emerged of Cuban nationals being sent to the battlefield in the conflict.

I Want to Live Initiative Reports Details on Cuban National Enlistment

The program, a state program that encourages enemy combatants to give up, stated in spring: "We have confirmed the identities and information of 1,028 individuals who signed contracts with the Russian armed forces in the past two years."

The government in Havana said of Cubans who might be participating: "Undeniably that none of them have the backing, allegiance, or authorization of the government in Havana for their activities."

Relatives of individuals who traveled to the Russian Federation in the year informed international media at the time that their relatives had been deceptively recruited through advertisements on online platforms.