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Ukraine's UAVs have targeted Russia's oil facility in the city of Ufa, positioned some 1,400 km from Ukraine, causing explosions and a fire, per a informed individual in Ukraine's SBU.

This represents the latest SBU long-range attack in Bashkortostan in the last month. Such strikes illustrate that there are no safe places in the distant backlines of the Russian Federation.

Zelenskyy Calls On US President to Mediate Truce in Ukraine

Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on the US President to broker peace in Ukraine during a call on Saturday.

"When a conflict can be stopped in a particular zone, then undoubtedly further hostilities can be halted as well, covering the conflict with Russia," the President stated, commending Trump's "exceptional" Gaza ceasefire plan and calling for the US president to pressure the Kremlin into negotiations.

Moscow's Strikes Kill Victims in Ukraine

Moscow's assaults on Ukrainian territory resulted in the deaths of several civilians on Saturday and cut power to areas of Ukraine's southern Odesa region, as stated by authorities in Ukraine.

A pair of individuals lost their lives in a religious building in Kostyantynivka when it was struck, according to local authorities.

In Russia's frontier area of the Belgorod region, a truck driver was killed by a Ukrainian strike, as stated by regional authorities.

Power Repair Operations in the Capital

Operations carried on on Saturday to recover electricity in the Ukrainian capital, after assaults.

Energy had been recovered to more than 800,000 inhabitants by the weekend and the biggest power firm announced the main efforts to recover electricity was finished though certain disruptions persisted.

Air Defence Actions and UAV Jamming

The Ukrainian defense forces downed or disrupted 54 of seventy-eight UAVs from Russia deployed targeting Ukraine overnight, the aerial defense command said on the weekend.

The Russian defence ministry said it eliminated forty-two UAVs from Ukraine over Russian territory.

Cuban Government Rejects Claims of Deploying Forces to the War

Cuba on Saturday denied US claims it has provided military personnel to fight in the Ukraine war, while affirming the government "lack precise details about Cuban nationals" involved "on their own" or "as part of the armed units of either party".

The government department in Havana announced 26 Cubans had been given prison terms to incarceration varying between five to 14 years for mercenary involvement since last September when news spread of Cubans being dispatched to the frontlines in Ukraine.

I Want to Live Program Reports Details on Cuban Recruitment

I Want to Live, a state initiative that urges opposing fighters to give up, said in May: "We have confirmed the identities and information of over a thousand Cuban nationals who enlisted with the Moscow's troops in recently."

The Cuban authorities commented of those who might be engaged: "It is irrefutable that no individual possesses the encouragement, dedication, or consent of the government in Havana for their involvement."

Family members of Cuban nationals who left for Russia in 2023 informed Agence France-Presse at the time that their loved ones had been deceptively recruited through advertisements on digital networks.