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Ukraine's drones have hit Russia's oil processing plant in the city of Ufa, situated some 1,400 km from Ukraine, triggering explosions and a inferno, as reported by a source in Ukraine's Security Service.

This constitutes the 3rd intelligence far-reaching assault in the region in the past month. Those attacks demonstrate that there are no protected areas in the distant backlines of the Russian Federation.

Zelenskyy Appeals to Trump to Broker Peace in the Conflict

The Ukrainian leader urged President Trump to facilitate a truce in Ukraine in a telephone conversation on Saturday.

"When a war can be stopped in a single area, then certainly additional conflicts can be ended as well, covering the conflict with Russia," he remarked, hailing Trump's "remarkable" Middle East ceasefire plan and requesting the US president to pressure the Russian government into talks.

Russian Attacks Take Victims in Ukraine

Russian attacks on Ukraine resulted in the deaths of five people on the weekend and disrupted electricity to areas of the south Odesa region, as stated by local sources.

Two people lost their lives within a church in Kostyantynivka when it was targeted, as reported by regional officials.

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

Energy Recovery Operations in the Capital

Work continued on the weekend to recover electricity in the Ukrainian capital, after Russian attacks.

Electricity had been returned to more than 800,000 inhabitants by the weekend and the major private energy company said the main operations to restore power was complete though certain disruptions remained.

Anti-Aircraft Actions and Drone Downings

The Ukrainian defense forces intercepted or jammed 54 out of seventy-eight Russian drones deployed against Ukraine overnight, the aerial defense command reported on the weekend.

The Russian defence ministry said it shot down 42 enemy drones over its own soil.

Cuba Rejects Accusations of Sending Troops to the War

Cuba on the weekend rejected American assertions it has provided soldiers to participate in the Ukraine war, while affirming Cuban authorities "lack accurate information about citizens of Cuba" involved "voluntarily" or "in the military forces of the conflicting parties".

The foreign ministry in the capital said 26 Cubans had been given prison terms to prison terms from five up to fourteen years for mercenary activity since the autumn of 2023 when reports circulated of Cubans being sent to the battlefield in the conflict.

I Want to Live Program Discloses Information on Cuban National Involvement

I Want to Live, a state project that urges enemy combatants to surrender, stated in spring: "We have confirmed the identities and information of one thousand and twenty-eight individuals who enlisted with the Moscow's troops in 2023-2024."

The Cuban authorities commented of Cubans who might be participating: "Undeniably that none of them possesses the support, dedication, or authorization of the Cuban authorities for their actions."

Family members of Cubans who left for the Russian Federation in 2023 told Agence France-Presse at the time that their family members had been misled into enlisting through ads on online platforms.