Recent Refinery Attack Reveals 'No Safe Locations in Russia's Deep Rear'

Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have targeted the Russian Bashneft processing plant in Ufa, located around 1,400 kilometres from the Ukrainian border, triggering detonations and a inferno, as reported by a insider in Ukraine's intelligence agency.

This represents the latest intelligence long-range attack in Bashkortostan in the past month. Such attacks demonstrate that there are no safe places in the far hinterland of the Russian state.

Zelenskyy Urges US President to Broker Ceasefire in the Conflict

President Zelenskyy called on the US President to facilitate a truce in Ukraine in a call on the weekend.

"When a hostilities can be stopped in a single area, then surely other wars can be stopped as well, encompassing the Russian war," he remarked, hailing Trump's "outstanding" Gaza ceasefire plan and requesting the American leader to pressure the Moscow into negotiations.

Moscow's Strikes Claim Victims in Ukraine

Russian attacks on Ukraine claimed the lives of 5 individuals on the weekend and disrupted electricity to sections of the southern Odesa region, according to local sources.

Two people were killed within a church in Kostyantynivka when it was targeted, as reported by local authorities.

In Russia's frontier area of Belgorod, a lorry operator was fatally wounded by a drone assault, per municipal sources.

Energy Recovery Work in Kyiv

Operations carried on on Saturday to recover electricity in Kyiv, after strikes by Moscow.

Electricity had been restored to more than 800,000 inhabitants by Saturday and the biggest private energy company announced the main operations to repair the grid was finished though partial blackouts remained.

Anti-Aircraft Efforts and Drone Jamming

Ukraine's defense forces neutralized 54 of seventy-eight UAVs from Russia deployed targeting Ukraine overnight, the military reported on the weekend.

Russia's military authorities claimed it intercepted forty-two Ukrainian drones over Russian territory.

Cuban Government Rejects Claims of Sending Troops to Ukraine

Cuba on Saturday refuted US allegations it has deployed troops to participate in the conflict in Ukraine, while affirming officials in Havana "lack exact information about Cuban nationals" engaged "voluntarily" or "as part of the armed units of both sides".

The ministry in the capital said twenty-six Cubans had been given prison terms to prison terms from five to 14 years for mercenary activity since September 2023 when reports emerged of Cuban nationals being dispatched to the frontlines in Ukraine.

Surrender Initiative Project Discloses Details on Cuban National Involvement

The program, a Ukrainian government project that urges adversaries to lay down arms, stated in May: "Our information indicates the identities and information of one thousand and twenty-eight individuals who entered into agreements with the Russian military in recently."

The government in Havana stated of those who might be engaged: "Undeniably that no individual have the encouragement, dedication, or approval of the Cuban state for their actions."

Relatives of Cuban nationals who traveled to Russia in the year informed Agence France-Presse at the time that their family members had been tricked into joining through ads on digital networks.