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Ukrainian drones have hit Russia's oil refinery in Ufa, located around 1,400 kilometres from the Ukrainian border, resulting in detonations and a blaze, according to a informed individual in the Ukrainian Security Service.

This represents the 3rd intelligence far-reaching assault in the region in the last month. Such attacks demonstrate that there are no safe places in the deep rear of the Russian Federation.

Zelenskyy Appeals to Trump to Facilitate Peace in the Conflict

The Ukrainian leader appealed to the US President to facilitate a truce in Ukraine during a call on the weekend.

"When a hostilities can be stopped in one region, then certainly additional conflicts can be stopped as well, covering the Russian war," the President remarked, hailing Trump's "exceptional" Gaza peace initiative and calling for the American leader to influence the Moscow into negotiations.

Russian Strikes Kill Victims in Ukraine

Russian attacks on Ukrainian territory resulted in the deaths of several civilians on the weekend and cut power to areas of the southern Odesa oblast, as stated by local sources.

Two people died in a place of worship in Kostyantynivka when it was targeted, per local authorities.

In Russia's border region of the Belgorod region, a truck driver was lost his life by a Ukrainian strike, according to regional authorities.

Power Recovery Work in Kyiv

Operations continued on Saturday to repair energy infrastructure in the Ukrainian capital, after Russian attacks.

Energy had been restored to in excess of 800,000 inhabitants by the weekend and the biggest power firm said the key operations to repair the grid was finished though some outages remained.

Air Defence Actions and UAV Jamming

The Ukrainian air defences downed or disrupted fifty-four of seventy-eight enemy drones deployed towards the country overnight, the aerial defense command said on the weekend.

The Russian defence ministry claimed it intercepted 42 drones over its own soil.

Cuban Government Denies Allegations of Providing Forces to Ukraine

Cuba on the weekend refuted American claims it has deployed military personnel to participate in the Ukraine war, while stating officials in Havana "lack precise information about citizens of Cuba" engaged "voluntarily" or "as part of the armed units of both sides".

The government department in Havana announced 26 Cuban citizens had been given prison terms to prison terms from five up to fourteen years for mercenary activity since September 2023 when news circulated of individuals being dispatched to the frontlines in Ukraine.

I Want to Live Project Reveals Information on Cuban National Enlistment

I Want to Live, a official Kyiv project that urges enemy combatants to surrender, reported in spring: "We have confirmed the identities and information of over a thousand Cuban nationals who enlisted with the Russian armed forces in recently."

The Cuban authorities commented of Cuban nationals who might be engaged: "There is no doubt that not a single one have the encouragement, dedication, or consent of the Cuban authorities for their activities."

Family members of Cubans who traveled to the Russian Federation in 2023 informed international media at the time that their family members had been misled into enlisting through advertisements on social media.