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Ukrainian UAVs have struck Russia's oil refinery in Ufa, situated around 1,400 km from the Ukrainian border, triggering detonations and a blaze, as reported by a informed individual in the Ukrainian Security Service.

This constitutes the 3rd intelligence deep strike in the region in the past month. These attacks show that there are no safe places in the distant backlines of the Russian state.

Ukrainian President Urges US President to Mediate Peace in Ukraine

President Zelenskyy appealed to the US President to mediate a ceasefire in Ukraine over a call on the weekend.

"If a war can be ended in one region, then certainly additional conflicts can be ended as well, including the Russian war," he said, praising Trump's "outstanding" Gaza ceasefire plan and calling for the US president to influence the Kremlin into discussions.

Russian Assaults Take Casualties in Ukraine

Moscow's assaults on Ukrainian territory claimed the lives of 5 individuals on Saturday and caused blackouts to parts of the southern Odesa oblast, as stated by Ukrainian officials.

Two civilians were killed inside a place of worship in Kostyantynivka when it was struck, as reported by municipal sources.

In the Russian border region of Belgorod, a vehicle operator was fatally wounded by a attack from Ukraine, per regional authorities.

Electricity Recovery Operations in the Capital

Efforts proceeded on the weekend to repair energy infrastructure in the Ukrainian capital, after assaults.

Power had been returned to more than 800,000 citizens by Saturday and the largest power firm announced the primary work to repair the grid was concluded though certain disruptions persisted.

Anti-Aircraft Efforts and UAV Jamming

The Ukrainian anti-aircraft systems intercepted or jammed 54 out of seventy-eight enemy drones launched targeting Ukraine during the night, the air force announced on Saturday.

The Russian defence ministry said it shot down 42 enemy UAVs from Ukraine over Russian territory.

Cuba Refutes Claims of Providing Forces to the War

Havana on the weekend refuted American allegations it has deployed troops to participate in the Ukraine war, while affirming Cuban authorities "are without exact information about individuals" involved "voluntarily" or "within the troops of the conflicting parties".

The ministry in the capital announced twenty-six Cubans had been given prison terms to incarceration varying between five to 14 years for participating as mercenaries since the autumn of 2023 when news spread of Cubans being deployed to the battlefield in the conflict.

I Want to Live Program Reveals Data on Cuban Recruitment

I Want to Live, a official Kyiv project that encourages adversaries to give up, said in May: "We have confirmed the personal data of one thousand and twenty-eight Cuban nationals who signed contracts with the Russian military in recently."

The government in Havana said of Cuban nationals who might be involved: "It is irrefutable that no individual have the backing, allegiance, or authorization of the Cuban state for their involvement."

Family members of individuals who left for the Russian Federation in the year informed international media at the time that their loved ones had been misled into enlisting through advertisements on digital networks.