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Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have hit Russia's Bashneft refinery in Ufa, positioned some 1,400 km from Ukraine, causing detonations and a fire, according to a insider in Ukraine's SBU.

This marks the 3rd intelligence far-reaching assault in the region in the recent weeks. Those attacks illustrate that there are no secure zones in the deep rear of the Russian state.

Ukrainian President Calls On US President to Facilitate Truce in Ukraine

The Ukrainian leader called on the US President to facilitate a truce in Ukraine during a call on the weekend.

"Provided that a hostilities can be stopped in a particular zone, then certainly additional conflicts can be stopped as well, covering the Russian war," he remarked, commending the US President's "remarkable" Gaza peace initiative and requesting the US president to influence the Russian government into discussions.

Moscow's Strikes Claim Victims in Ukraine

Russian attacks on Ukrainian territory claimed the lives of several civilians on Saturday and cut power to parts of Ukraine's southern Odesa area, per local sources.

Two people lost their lives in a religious building in the town when it was hit, per municipal sources.

In Russia's adjacent territory of Belgorod, a vehicle operator was fatally wounded by a attack from Ukraine, per regional authorities.

Electricity Restoration Work in Kyiv

Efforts continued on Saturday to repair energy infrastructure in Kyiv, after Russian attacks.

Electricity had been restored to more than 800,000 residents by Saturday and the biggest private energy company stated the primary efforts to repair the grid was finished though some outages continued.

Anti-Aircraft Operations and Drone Jamming

The Ukrainian anti-aircraft systems neutralized 54 out of 78 UAVs from Russia launched against Ukraine overnight, the air force reported on the weekend.

The Russian defence ministry stated it intercepted forty-two Ukrainian drones over the country's airspace.

Cuban Government Rejects Claims of Deploying Troops to Ukraine

Havana on the weekend refuted US assertions it has deployed troops to participate in the Ukraine war, while stating the government "are without exact details about Cuban nationals" engaged "voluntarily" or "within the troops of either party".

The government department in Havana stated twenty-six Cubans had been given prison terms to prison terms from five to 14 years for participating as mercenaries since September 2023 when reports emerged of individuals being deployed to the frontlines in the conflict.

I Want to Live Initiative Discloses Information on Cuban Involvement

I Want to Live, a state initiative that urges enemy combatants to give up, said in May: "We reliably know the names and personal details of over a thousand Cubans who entered into agreements with the Russian military in the past two years."

The Cuban authorities commented of Cuban nationals who might be involved: "Undeniably that none of them possesses the backing, commitment, or approval of the Cuban state for their involvement."

Kin of Cuban nationals who departed to Russia in the year informed news outlets at the time that their family members had been misled into enlisting through advertisements on digital networks.