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Ukrainian UAVs have struck the Russian oil processing plant in Ufa, located around 1,400 km from the Ukrainian border, resulting in detonations and a fire, according to a insider in Ukraine's Security Service.

This represents the latest SBU long-range attack in the region in the recent weeks. Those strikes illustrate that there are no safe places in the distant backlines of the Russian Federation.

Zelenskyy Urges Trump to Broker Truce in Ukraine

The Ukrainian leader called on the US President to broker peace in the Ukrainian conflict in a call on Saturday.

"If a conflict can be ended in one region, then undoubtedly other wars can be ended as well, covering the Russian war," he said, hailing Trump's "remarkable" Middle East truce proposal and requesting the President to influence the Russian government into negotiations.

Moscow's Attacks Take Casualties in the Country

Russian attacks on Ukraine killed at least five people on Saturday and disrupted electricity to parts of Ukraine's southern Odesa area, according to authorities in Ukraine.

Two civilians lost their lives within a religious building in Kostyantynivka when it was struck, per regional officials.

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

Electricity Restoration Efforts in Kyiv

Efforts carried on on Saturday to repair energy infrastructure in the Ukrainian capital, after strikes by Moscow.

Energy had been recovered to more than 800,000 inhabitants by the weekend and the major power firm said the key work to restore power was concluded though certain disruptions continued.

Air Defence Actions and Drone Interceptions

The Ukrainian defense forces downed or disrupted 54 of seventy-eight UAVs from Russia deployed targeting Ukraine in the dark hours, the aerial defense command announced on Saturday.

The Russian military authorities claimed it intercepted 42 enemy Ukrainian drones over its own soil.

Cuban Government Rejects Accusations of Providing Troops to the War

Cuba on the weekend refuted US assertions it has provided troops to engage in the hostilities, while stating officials in Havana "are without accurate details about citizens of Cuba" involved "independently" or "in the military forces of the conflicting parties".

The ministry in Havana said 26 nationals had been sentenced to incarceration from 5 to 14 years for mercenary activity since last September when news emerged of Cubans being sent to the battlefield in Ukraine.

Surrender Initiative Project Discloses Details on Cuban National Enlistment

The program, a Ukrainian government project that promotes enemy combatants to surrender, said in spring: "We have confirmed the names and personal details of over a thousand individuals who signed contracts with the Russian military in the past two years."

The government in Havana stated of those who might be engaged: "Undeniably that no individual has the encouragement, commitment, or authorization of the Cuban state for their involvement."

Kin of Cubans who traveled to Russia in the year informed international media at the time that their relatives had been misled into enlisting through promotions on social media.