🔗 Share this article

Ukraine's drones have hit the Russian oil processing plant in the city of Ufa, positioned around 1,400 kilometres from Ukraine, resulting in detonations and a inferno, according to a source in Ukraine's Security Service.

This constitutes the latest Ukrainian security service far-reaching assault in Bashkortostan in the last month. These operations illustrate that there are no safe places in the distant backlines of the Russian state.

Ukrainian President Urges Trump to Facilitate Peace in the Conflict

President Zelenskyy called on Donald Trump to facilitate a truce in the Ukrainian conflict during a phone call on Saturday.

"Provided that a hostilities can be ended in one region, then surely additional conflicts can be stopped as well, covering the Russian war," he remarked, commending the US President's "exceptional" Gaza peace initiative and calling for the President to pressure the Moscow into negotiations.

Moscow's Attacks Take Victims in Ukraine

Moscow's assaults on Ukrainian territory claimed the lives of 5 individuals on Saturday and caused blackouts to sections of the southern Odesa oblast, according to authorities in Ukraine.

A pair of individuals were killed within a church in the town when it was hit, per local authorities.

In the Russian adjacent territory of the Belgorod region, a truck driver was killed by a Ukrainian strike, according to local officials.

Power Repair Work in the Capital

Operations continued on the weekend to restore power in the Ukrainian capital, after Russian attacks.

Power had been restored to over 800,000 inhabitants by Saturday and the largest private energy company said the main operations to restore power was complete though some outages continued.

Air Defence Operations and Drone Interceptions

The Ukrainian defense forces downed or disrupted fifty-four of 78 Russian drones deployed towards the country during the night, the military reported on Saturday.

Russia's military authorities said it shot down 42 UAVs from Ukraine over the country's airspace.

Cuba Refutes Claims of Sending Troops to Ukraine

Havana on Saturday denied American assertions it has provided troops to fight in the Ukraine war, while affirming the government "do not have exact data about citizens of Cuba" participating "voluntarily" or "within the troops of the conflicting parties".

The government department in Havana stated twenty-six Cuban citizens had been given prison terms to incarceration from five to 14 years for mercenary involvement since the autumn of 2023 when news spread of individuals being sent to the frontlines in Ukraine.

I Want to Live Program Reports Data on Cuban Recruitment

The program, a Ukrainian government program that promotes opposing fighters to lay down arms, said in May: "Our information indicates the personal data of 1,028 Cubans who signed contracts with the Russian armed forces in recently."

The government in Havana commented of Cuban nationals who might be engaged: "It is irrefutable that no individual have the support, allegiance, or consent of the government in Havana for their activities."

Family members of Cuban nationals who left for the Russian Federation in the year told news outlets at the time that their loved ones had been deceptively recruited through ads on social media.