Ukraine's drones have targeted Russia's Bashneft refinery in Ufa, positioned around 1,400 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, resulting in detonations and a inferno, according to a source in the Ukrainian SBU.
This constitutes the latest Ukrainian security service far-reaching assault in the region in the past month. These attacks illustrate that there are no safe places in the distant backlines of the Russia.
President Zelenskyy appealed to the US President to broker peace in Ukraine during a call on Saturday.
"Provided that a conflict can be halted in a particular zone, then certainly further hostilities can be ended as well, including the Russian war," Zelenskyy said, praising Trump's "outstanding" Middle East peace initiative and calling for the American leader to compel the Kremlin into talks.
Russian attacks on Ukraine killed at least several civilians on the weekend and cut power to sections of Ukraine's south Odesa area, per authorities in Ukraine.
Two people lost their lives in a religious building in Kostyantynivka when it was hit, per municipal sources.
In Russia's adjacent territory of the Belgorod region, a truck driver was fatally wounded by a attack from Ukraine, according to regional authorities.
Efforts proceeded on Saturday to restore power in the Ukrainian capital, after strikes by Moscow.
Power had been recovered to more than 800,000 residents by the weekend and the major private energy company said the main operations to recover electricity was finished though certain disruptions persisted.
The Ukrainian anti-aircraft systems neutralized 54 out of 78 UAVs from Russia deployed against the country during the night, the aerial defense command reported on Saturday.
Russia's defense officials stated it shot down 42 enemy Ukrainian drones over its own soil.
The Cuban government on Saturday denied American allegations it has deployed troops to participate in the hostilities, while stating officials in Havana "lack precise details about citizens of Cuba" involved "on their own" or "in the military forces of both sides".
The government department in Havana announced 26 Cubans had been sentenced to prison terms varying between 5 to 14 years for mercenary activity since September 2023 when information emerged of individuals being dispatched to the frontlines in Ukraine.
The program, a state initiative that encourages opposing fighters to give up, reported in spring: "We reliably know the personal data of one thousand and twenty-eight individuals who signed contracts with the Russian armed forces in the past two years."
The government in Havana stated of Cuban nationals who might be participating: "It is irrefutable that none of them has the encouragement, commitment, or approval of the Cuban state for their activities."
Kin of Cuban nationals who left for Russia in 2023 reported to news outlets at the time that their relatives had been deceptively recruited through ads on social media.
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