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Ukrainian UAVs have hit Russia's Bashneft facility in Ufa, positioned approximately 1,400 km from the Ukrainian border, resulting in explosions and a fire, per a insider in the Ukrainian Security Service.

This marks the third Ukrainian security service deep strike in the region in the last month. These attacks show that there are no safe places in the distant backlines of the Russia.

Ukrainian President Appeals to US President to Broker Truce in the Conflict

The Ukrainian leader urged the US President to facilitate a truce in the Ukrainian conflict in a call on Saturday.

"Provided that a hostilities can be halted in a particular zone, then surely other wars can be ended as well, covering the Russian aggression," he remarked, commending the US President's "remarkable" Middle East truce proposal and calling for the American leader to influence the Kremlin into talks.

Moscow's Strikes Kill Victims in the Country

Moscow's assaults on Ukraine resulted in the deaths of 5 individuals on Saturday and caused blackouts to sections of Ukraine's southern Odesa oblast, according to local sources.

Two people lost their lives within a religious building in Kostyantynivka when it was hit, according to regional officials.

In Russia's frontier area of the Belgorod region, a lorry operator was killed by a Ukrainian strike, as stated by municipal sources.

Electricity Recovery Efforts in Kyiv

Work proceeded on the weekend to restore power in Kyiv, after assaults.

Energy had been recovered to over 800,000 citizens by Saturday and the major private energy company announced the primary efforts to recover electricity was finished though some outages continued.

Air Defence Actions and UAV Interceptions

Ukraine's defense forces neutralized fifty-four of seventy-eight enemy drones launched targeting the country overnight, the aerial defense command said on the weekend.

The Russian defense officials said it shot down forty-two drones over the country's airspace.

Cuba Rejects Claims of Deploying Forces to Ukraine

Havana on Saturday rejected US allegations it has provided troops to participate in the conflict in Ukraine, while declaring Cuban authorities "lack exact data about individuals" involved "voluntarily" or "in the military forces of both sides".

The government department in the capital announced 26 Cubans had been given prison terms to jail sentences from 5 to 14 years for participating as mercenaries since last September when reports circulated of individuals being deployed to the front in the conflict.

Surrender Initiative Project Reveals Data on Cuban National Recruitment

The program, a state initiative that promotes adversaries to surrender, reported in May: "We reliably know the names and personal details of one thousand and twenty-eight individuals who enlisted with the Moscow's troops in recently."

The Cuban foreign ministry said of Cubans who might be engaged: "There is no doubt that no individual possesses the support, dedication, or consent of the Cuban state for their actions."

Relatives of Cuban nationals who departed to the Russian Federation in 2023 informed Agence France-Presse at the time that their family members had been deceptively recruited through ads on online platforms.