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Ukraine's drones have targeted Russia's Bashneft facility in Ufa, situated approximately 1,400 kilometres from Ukraine, resulting in blasts and a inferno, according to a informed individual in Ukraine's SBU.

This represents the third SBU long-range attack in the region in the last month. Those attacks illustrate that there are no safe places in the far hinterland of the Russian state.

Zelenskyy Urges Trump to Mediate Truce in Ukraine

The Ukrainian leader urged Donald Trump to broker peace in Ukraine during a telephone conversation on the weekend.

"If a conflict can be halted in a particular zone, then undoubtedly additional conflicts can be halted as well, including the Russian aggression," the President remarked, commending the US President's "remarkable" Middle East ceasefire plan and requesting the President to influence the Kremlin into negotiations.

Moscow's Assaults Take Lives in the Country

Moscow's assaults on Ukrainian territory killed at least 5 individuals on the weekend and cut power to areas of Ukraine's southern Odesa area, per local sources.

Two civilians were killed within a church in Kostyantynivka when it was struck, per regional officials.

In Russia's adjacent territory of the Belgorod region, a vehicle operator was lost his life by a attack from Ukraine, as stated by regional authorities.

Electricity Restoration Work in the Capital

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

Energy had been returned to in excess of 800,000 inhabitants by Saturday and the major private energy company announced the primary work to restore power was finished though partial blackouts persisted.

Anti-Aircraft Actions and Drone Downings

The Ukrainian anti-aircraft systems intercepted or jammed 54 out of 78 total enemy drones deployed towards Ukraine during the night, the air force said on Saturday.

The Russian military authorities stated it eliminated 42 enemy drones over the country's airspace.

Cuba Refutes Claims of Providing Soldiers to Ukraine

Cuba on the weekend rejected American assertions it has provided soldiers to fight in the conflict in Ukraine, while affirming officials in Havana "are without precise details about citizens of Cuba" engaged "voluntarily" or "in the military forces of either party".

The ministry in the capital said twenty-six Cubans had been sentenced to incarceration ranging from 5 to 14 years for participating as mercenaries since the autumn of 2023 when news spread of Cubans being deployed to the front in Ukraine.

I Want to Live Program Discloses Data on Cuban Enlistment

The surrender initiative, a Ukrainian government program that promotes enemy combatants to surrender, stated in May: "We have confirmed the personal data of one thousand and twenty-eight Cubans who enlisted with the Russian military in recently."

The government in Havana commented of Cuban nationals who might be participating: "Undeniably that not a single one have the support, dedication, or authorization of the Cuban authorities for their actions."

Relatives of Cubans who traveled to the Russian Federation in the year reported to news outlets at the time that their loved ones had been deceptively recruited through promotions on digital networks.