Latest Processing Facility Assault Shows 'Zero Protected Locations in Russia's Deep Rear'

Ukraine's drones have targeted the Russian Bashneft refinery in Ufa, located around 1,400 kilometers from Ukraine, causing blasts and a fire, per a insider in the Ukrainian intelligence agency.

This constitutes the latest Ukrainian security service long-range attack in Bashkortostan in the past month. These attacks illustrate that there are no protected areas in the deep rear of the Russian Federation.

Zelenskyy Appeals to Trump to Mediate Truce in the Conflict

Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged President Trump to broker peace in the Ukrainian conflict during a phone call on Saturday.

"When a conflict can be stopped in a particular zone, then certainly other wars can be halted as well, encompassing the Russian war," the President said, praising Trump's "remarkable" Gaza truce proposal and requesting the US president to compel the Moscow into talks.

Russian Strikes Kill Victims in Ukraine

Strikes by Russia on Ukrainian territory claimed the lives of five people on the weekend and cut power to parts of Ukraine's south Odesa area, according to authorities in Ukraine.

A pair of individuals were killed inside a religious building in Kostyantynivka when it was targeted, per municipal sources.

In the Russian frontier area of Belgorod, a vehicle operator was lost his life by a Ukrainian strike, as stated by local officials.

Power Recovery Work in the Capital

Efforts continued on the weekend to restore power in Kyiv, after Russian attacks.

Power had been recovered to more than 800,000 inhabitants by the weekend and the major private energy company announced the key efforts to restore power was finished though partial blackouts persisted.

Air Defence Actions and UAV Interceptions

Ukraine's defense forces downed or disrupted 54 out of 78 Russian drones launched targeting the country during the night, the aerial defense command said on the weekend.

Russia's defense officials claimed it eliminated 42 drones over the country's airspace.

Cuban Government Denies Accusations of Deploying Troops to the War

Havana on the weekend denied US allegations it has deployed soldiers to participate in the Ukraine war, while stating Cuban authorities "do not have accurate details about citizens of Cuba" involved "independently" or "as part of the armed units of either party".

The ministry in the capital stated twenty-six Cuban citizens had been given prison terms to incarceration varying between five up to fourteen years for participating as mercenaries since September 2023 when reports circulated of Cubans being sent to the battlefield in the conflict.

Surrender Initiative Initiative Reveals Information on Cuban National Involvement

I Want to Live, a Ukrainian government program that promotes adversaries to lay down arms, stated in May: "Our information indicates the personal data of 1,028 Cubans who enlisted with the Russian armed forces in recently."

The Cuban authorities commented of Cuban nationals who might be involved: "Undeniably that none of them has the support, commitment, or approval of the government in Havana for their involvement."

Kin of Cuban nationals who left for the Russian Federation in 2023 told Agence France-Presse at the time that their relatives had been deceptively recruited through promotions on digital networks.