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Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have targeted the Russian Bashneft facility in Ufa, positioned some 1,400 kilometres from Ukraine, resulting in explosions and a inferno, as reported by a source in Ukraine's SBU.

This represents the third SBU far-reaching assault in Bashkortostan in the recent weeks. Those attacks show that there are no safe places in the deep rear of the Russian Federation.

Ukrainian President Calls On Trump to Mediate Truce in the Conflict

The Ukrainian leader called on the US President to mediate a ceasefire in the Ukrainian conflict in a telephone conversation on the weekend.

"If a hostilities can be ended in one region, then certainly additional conflicts can be ended as well, encompassing the Russian aggression," he said, commending the US President's "exceptional" Middle East truce proposal and urging the American leader to compel the Kremlin into negotiations.

Russian Strikes Take Lives in the Country

Moscow's assaults on Ukrainian territory resulted in the deaths of 5 individuals on Saturday and disrupted electricity to parts of Ukraine's southern Odesa oblast, per local sources.

Two civilians lost their lives inside a church in Kostyantynivka when it was struck, according to municipal sources.

In the Russian frontier area of Belgorod, a lorry operator was lost his life by a drone assault, according to local officials.

Power Recovery Work in Kyiv

Work carried on on the weekend to repair energy infrastructure in the Ukrainian capital, after Russian attacks.

Electricity had been restored to in excess of 800,000 inhabitants by Saturday and the largest power firm announced the key operations to repair the grid was complete though some outages persisted.

Anti-Aircraft Actions and Drone Interceptions

The Ukrainian defense forces downed or disrupted fifty-four of seventy-eight enemy drones deployed towards the country in the dark hours, the aerial defense command reported on the weekend.

The Russian defense officials claimed it intercepted 42 drones over Russian territory.

Cuban Government Rejects Claims of Providing Forces to Ukraine

Cuba on Saturday rejected US allegations it has sent troops to participate in the hostilities, while stating the government "lack exact details about citizens of Cuba" engaged "voluntarily" or "as part of the armed units of both sides".

The ministry in Havana said 26 nationals had been convicted to incarceration ranging from 5 to 14 years for participating as mercenaries since last September when reports circulated of Cubans being dispatched to the front in the conflict.

I Want to Live Initiative Reveals Information on Cuban Involvement

The surrender initiative, a official Kyiv initiative that encourages enemy combatants to give up, reported in spring: "We reliably know the identities and information of one thousand and twenty-eight Cubans who enlisted with the Russian military in the past two years."

The government in Havana stated of Cubans who might be involved: "Undeniably that not a single one possesses the encouragement, commitment, or authorization of the Cuban state for their activities."

Kin of individuals who traveled to the Russian Federation in the year informed international media at the time that their loved ones had been deceptively recruited through promotions on digital networks.