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Ukraine's drones have struck Russia's oil processing plant in Ufa, positioned around 1,400 kilometres from the Ukrainian border, resulting in explosions and a fire, according to a insider in Ukraine's Security Service.

This represents the latest Ukrainian security service far-reaching assault in the region in the past month. These strikes illustrate that there are no secure zones in the far hinterland of the Russian Federation.

Ukrainian President Calls On US President to Mediate Truce in Ukraine

President Zelenskyy appealed to Donald Trump to broker peace in Ukraine over a phone call on Saturday.

"If a hostilities can be ended in a particular zone, then certainly further hostilities can be ended as well, including the Russian aggression," Zelenskyy stated, hailing the US President's "outstanding" Middle East ceasefire plan and urging the American leader to compel the Moscow into talks.

Moscow's Attacks Take Lives in the Country

Russian attacks on Ukraine killed at least 5 individuals on Saturday and cut power to sections of Ukraine's southern Odesa oblast, according to authorities in Ukraine.

A pair of individuals died within a church in Kostyantynivka when it was hit, per municipal sources.

In Russia's adjacent territory of the Belgorod region, a vehicle operator was fatally wounded by a drone assault, according to local officials.

Energy Restoration Work in the Capital

Operations continued on the weekend to repair energy infrastructure in the Ukrainian capital, after assaults.

Electricity had been returned to over 800,000 residents by the weekend and the largest power firm announced the key work to recover electricity was complete though some outages remained.

Anti-Aircraft Efforts and Drone Interceptions

Ukraine's air defences intercepted or jammed fifty-four of seventy-eight Russian drones launched targeting Ukraine in the dark hours, the aerial defense command said on the weekend.

The Russian military authorities stated it eliminated forty-two UAVs from Ukraine over its own soil.

Cuban Government Refutes Allegations of Providing Troops to the War

The Cuban government on the weekend refuted US claims it has deployed military personnel to participate in the Ukraine war, while affirming the government "lack exact data about Cuban nationals" involved "on their own" or "as part of the armed units of the conflicting parties".

The government department in the capital said 26 Cuban citizens had been given prison terms to jail sentences ranging from five up to fourteen years for participating as mercenaries since last September when reports circulated of Cuban nationals being deployed to the frontlines in Ukraine.

I Want to Live Initiative Discloses Data on Cuban Involvement

The program, a Ukrainian government initiative that encourages adversaries to give up, said in May: "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 said of Cuban nationals who might be involved: "Undeniably that not a single one possesses the encouragement, allegiance, or authorization of the Cuban state for their actions."

Relatives of Cubans who traveled to the Russian Federation in the year told Agence France-Presse at the time that their loved ones had been misled into enlisting through advertisements on digital networks.