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Ukrainian UAVs have struck the Russian oil refinery in Ufa, positioned approximately 1,400 kilometres from the Ukrainian border, resulting in detonations and a fire, per a source in the Ukrainian intelligence agency.

This represents the third SBU long-range attack in the region in the recent weeks. Those operations illustrate that there are no safe places in the distant backlines of the Russia.

Zelenskyy Appeals to Trump to Facilitate Truce in Ukraine

Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed to Donald Trump to facilitate a truce in Ukraine during a call on the weekend.

"When a war can be halted in a particular zone, then certainly further hostilities can be halted as well, including the conflict with Russia," Zelenskyy said, praising Trump's "outstanding" Middle East peace initiative and urging the US president to pressure the Russian government into negotiations.

Moscow's Attacks Claim Victims in Ukraine

Russian attacks on Ukraine resulted in the deaths of 5 individuals on the weekend and disrupted electricity to parts of the south Odesa oblast, according to local sources.

A pair of individuals were killed inside a religious building in Kostyantynivka when it was targeted, according to local authorities.

In Russia's border region of the Belgorod region, a lorry operator was fatally wounded by a Ukrainian strike, according to regional authorities.

Power Recovery Operations in the Capital

Operations carried on on Saturday to recover electricity in the Ukrainian capital, after strikes by Moscow.

Electricity had been returned to over 800,000 citizens by the weekend and the largest utility provider stated the main operations to restore power was complete though partial blackouts remained.

Anti-Aircraft Actions and Drone Jamming

The Ukrainian air defences downed or disrupted fifty-four of 78 Russian drones deployed against the country during the night, the military announced on the weekend.

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

Cuba Denies Claims of Providing Soldiers to the War

Havana on the weekend rejected US assertions it has sent soldiers to participate in the conflict in Ukraine, while declaring the government "do not have precise details about Cuban nationals" involved "voluntarily" or "in the military forces of either party".

The ministry in Havana said twenty-six Cuban citizens had been given prison terms to prison terms varying between five up to fourteen years for participating as mercenaries since September 2023 when reports spread of individuals being dispatched to the front in Ukraine.

I Want to Live Project Reports Details on Cuban National Enlistment

The program, a official Kyiv program that promotes adversaries to lay down arms, said in spring: "We have confirmed the identities and information of one thousand and twenty-eight Cuban nationals who signed contracts with the Russian military in the past two years."

The Cuban authorities said of Cubans who might be engaged: "There is no doubt that not a single one have the encouragement, commitment, or consent of the government in Havana for their activities."

Family members of Cuban nationals who left for Russia in the year informed news outlets at the time that their family members had been tricked into joining through advertisements on digital networks.