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Ukrainian UAVs have targeted Russia's oil refinery in Ufa, located around 1,400 kilometers from Ukraine, causing explosions and a blaze, as reported by a informed individual in the Ukrainian intelligence agency.

This constitutes the third Ukrainian security service long-range attack in the region in the last month. Those attacks illustrate that there are no protected areas in the far hinterland of the Russian state.

Ukrainian President Appeals to Trump to Facilitate Ceasefire in Ukraine

President Zelenskyy appealed to President Trump to broker peace in Ukraine during a telephone conversation on the weekend.

"If a war can be halted in one region, then undoubtedly additional conflicts can be stopped as well, including the Russian aggression," the President stated, hailing the US President's "exceptional" Middle East truce proposal and urging the US president to influence the Russian government into discussions.

Russian Assaults Take Victims in Ukraine

Russian attacks on Ukraine claimed the lives of 5 individuals on Saturday and disrupted electricity to parts of Ukraine's southern Odesa area, according to Ukrainian officials.

Two people died within a church in Kostyantynivka when it was hit, according to municipal sources.

In Russia's frontier area of the Belgorod region, a lorry operator was lost his life by a Ukrainian strike, per municipal sources.

Power Repair Work in Kyiv

Work proceeded on the weekend to restore power in Kyiv, after assaults.

Electricity had been restored to in excess of 800,000 residents by Saturday and the biggest private energy company said the primary operations to restore power was finished though certain disruptions persisted.

Air Defence Actions and Drone Downings

Ukraine's defense forces neutralized fifty-four of seventy-eight UAVs from Russia launched towards the country during the night, the military said on Saturday.

Russia's defense officials claimed it eliminated 42 Ukrainian drones over the country's airspace.

Cuban Government Rejects Accusations of Deploying Troops to the War

Havana on Saturday rejected American allegations it has provided troops to engage in the Ukraine war, while declaring the government "are without accurate data about Cuban nationals" involved "on their own" or "within the troops of either party".

The government department in the capital stated 26 nationals had been convicted to prison terms varying between five to 14 years for mercenary activity since the autumn of 2023 when news spread of individuals being dispatched to the frontlines in the conflict.

I Want to Live Project Reveals Data on Cuban Enlistment

The surrender initiative, a official Kyiv project that promotes adversaries to surrender, reported in May: "We have confirmed the names and personal details of one thousand and twenty-eight individuals who signed contracts with the Russian military in recently."

The Cuban authorities stated of those who might be involved: "It is irrefutable that no individual have the encouragement, commitment, or authorization of the Cuban state for their involvement."

Family members of Cuban nationals who departed to the Russian Federation in 2023 told international media at the time that their relatives had been tricked into joining through advertisements on social media.