🔗 Share this article

Ukraine's unmanned aerial vehicles have struck Russia's oil facility in Ufa, located around 1,400 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, resulting in blasts and a inferno, as reported by a informed individual in the Ukrainian Security Service.

This constitutes the 3rd SBU deep strike in Bashkortostan in the last month. Those operations demonstrate that there are no protected areas in the distant backlines of the Russian state.

Ukrainian President Appeals to Trump to Mediate Ceasefire in the Conflict

Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the US President to mediate a ceasefire in Ukraine during a telephone conversation on the weekend.

"Provided that a conflict can be stopped in a single area, then undoubtedly additional conflicts can be stopped as well, covering the Russian aggression," Zelenskyy said, commending Trump's "outstanding" Middle East peace initiative and urging the President to influence the Kremlin into talks.

Russian Assaults Claim Victims in Ukraine

Russian attacks on Ukraine claimed the lives of five people on Saturday and cut power to areas of Ukraine's south Odesa area, per Ukrainian officials.

A pair of individuals lost their lives inside a religious building in Kostyantynivka when it was targeted, per municipal sources.

In Russia's border region of Belgorod, a vehicle operator was killed by a Ukrainian strike, as stated by municipal sources.

Electricity Repair Work in Kyiv

Work carried on on Saturday to repair energy infrastructure in Kyiv, after Russian attacks.

Electricity had been restored to over 800,000 residents by Saturday and the largest private energy company stated the primary work to recover electricity was finished though certain disruptions continued.

Air Defence Efforts and Drone Interceptions

The Ukrainian defense forces intercepted or jammed fifty-four of seventy-eight UAVs from Russia deployed towards the country during the night, the aerial defense command reported on the weekend.

The Russian military authorities said it shot down 42 drones over its own soil.

Cuba Rejects Allegations of Deploying Forces to the War

Havana on Saturday denied American assertions it has sent military personnel to engage in the hostilities, while declaring Cuban authorities "lack exact data about Cuban nationals" participating "independently" or "within the troops of both sides".

The foreign ministry in Havana announced twenty-six nationals had been convicted to incarceration ranging from five up to fourteen years for participating as mercenaries since September 2023 when information emerged of individuals being dispatched to the front in the conflict.

I Want to Live Program Discloses Details on Cuban National Enlistment

The program, a state initiative that encourages adversaries to surrender, stated in spring: "We reliably know the identities and information of one thousand and twenty-eight Cuban nationals who signed contracts with the Russian armed forces in the past two years."

The government in Havana stated of Cubans who might be involved: "Undeniably that not a single one have the support, allegiance, or approval of the Cuban authorities for their activities."

Family members of individuals who left for the Russian Federation in the year informed Agence France-Presse at the time that their relatives had been misled into enlisting through advertisements on digital networks.