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Ukraine's drones have targeted the Russian Bashneft refinery in Ufa, situated approximately 1,400 kilometres from the Ukrainian border, resulting in detonations and a fire, according to a informed individual in Ukraine's intelligence agency.

This constitutes the latest Ukrainian security service long-range attack in the region in the past month. Those strikes show that there are no safe places in the distant backlines of the Russia.

Ukrainian President Calls On Trump to Mediate Truce in Ukraine

President Zelenskyy called on the US President to broker peace in Ukraine in a call on the weekend.

"When a war can be stopped in a single area, then surely further hostilities can be ended as well, covering the Russian aggression," the President said, hailing Trump's "exceptional" Gaza truce proposal and urging the President to influence the Russian government into talks.

Moscow's Assaults Claim Casualties in Ukraine

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

Two people were killed in a church in the town when it was targeted, per regional officials.

In the Russian frontier area of Belgorod, a truck driver was fatally wounded by a Ukrainian strike, as stated by municipal sources.

Electricity Recovery Operations in the Capital

Work continued on Saturday to recover electricity in the Ukrainian capital, after assaults.

Electricity had been returned to in excess of 800,000 residents by Saturday and the biggest utility provider announced the key work to restore power was finished though partial blackouts continued.

Anti-Aircraft Operations and Drone Jamming

Ukraine's defense forces downed or disrupted 54 of 78 total UAVs from Russia deployed targeting Ukraine in the dark hours, the aerial defense command announced on Saturday.

Russia's defense officials stated it eliminated 42 enemy UAVs from Ukraine over the country's airspace.

Cuban Government Denies Allegations of Providing Forces to the War

Havana on Saturday refuted US assertions it has deployed military personnel to engage in the Ukraine war, while declaring officials in Havana "are without precise data about citizens of Cuba" engaged "voluntarily" or "in the military forces of both sides".

The government department in the capital announced twenty-six nationals had been given prison terms to prison terms varying between 5 to 14 years for mercenary involvement since last September when information circulated of Cuban nationals being sent to the front in the conflict.

Surrender Initiative Initiative Reveals Information on Cuban National Recruitment

The program, a official Kyiv initiative that encourages enemy combatants to lay down arms, said in spring: "We reliably know the names and personal details of over a thousand individuals who signed contracts with the Russian armed forces in recently."

The Cuban foreign ministry stated of Cubans who might be involved: "It is irrefutable that none of them has the backing, allegiance, or consent of the Cuban state for their actions."

Relatives of individuals who departed to Russia in the year informed Agence France-Presse at the time that their loved ones had been misled into enlisting through ads on digital networks.