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Ukraine's UAVs have struck Russia's Bashneft facility in Ufa, positioned approximately 1,400 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, triggering detonations and a fire, per a source in the Ukrainian Security Service.

This constitutes the third Ukrainian security service deep strike in Bashkortostan in the past month. Those strikes illustrate that there are no protected areas in the deep rear of the Russian state.

Zelenskyy Calls On US President to Broker Truce in the Conflict

President Zelenskyy appealed to Donald Trump to facilitate a truce in Ukraine in a phone call on the weekend.

"When a hostilities can be halted in one region, then certainly further hostilities can be halted as well, encompassing the Russian war," Zelenskyy remarked, commending the US President's "exceptional" Middle East truce proposal and urging the US president to influence the Moscow into talks.

Moscow's Assaults Claim Casualties in Ukraine

Strikes by Russia on Ukraine resulted in the deaths of several civilians on the weekend and cut power to parts of the southern Odesa area, as stated by local sources.

Two people were killed inside a religious building in Kostyantynivka when it was hit, according to local authorities.

In Russia's border region of the Belgorod region, a vehicle operator was killed by a Ukrainian strike, according to regional authorities.

Electricity Recovery Operations in Kyiv

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

Energy had been restored to more than 800,000 residents by the weekend and the major power firm said the key efforts to recover electricity was finished though certain disruptions persisted.

Anti-Aircraft Efforts and Drone Interceptions

Ukraine's air defences neutralized 54 of seventy-eight UAVs from Russia deployed against Ukraine in the dark hours, the military said on the weekend.

The Russian defense officials claimed it eliminated forty-two UAVs from Ukraine over its own soil.

Cuba Denies Claims of Deploying Troops to the War

Havana on the weekend denied US allegations it has deployed military personnel to engage in the Ukraine war, while declaring the government "do not have precise data about citizens of Cuba" engaged "on their own" or "in the military forces of both sides".

The ministry in Havana said twenty-six nationals had been convicted to jail sentences ranging from five up to fourteen years for mercenary involvement since last September when reports emerged of Cubans being sent to the front in Ukraine.

I Want to Live Project Reveals Information on Cuban National Recruitment

I Want to Live, a official Kyiv initiative that promotes opposing fighters to give up, stated in May: "We reliably know the names and personal details of one thousand and twenty-eight Cubans who entered into agreements with the Moscow's troops in the past two years."

The Cuban foreign ministry commented of Cuban nationals who might be participating: "There is no doubt that none of them possesses the encouragement, dedication, or approval of the government in Havana for their activities."

Family members of individuals who left for Russia in the year reported to international media at the time that their loved ones had been deceptively recruited through advertisements on online platforms.