Ukraine's UAVs have targeted Russia's oil processing plant in the city of Ufa, situated around 1,400 km from the Ukrainian border, resulting in explosions and a inferno, according to a informed individual in Ukraine's SBU.
This marks the third intelligence far-reaching assault in Bashkortostan in the last month. Those attacks illustrate that there are no safe places in the far hinterland of the Russian state.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed to President Trump to facilitate a truce in the Ukrainian conflict over a call on Saturday.
"When a conflict can be ended in one region, then surely other wars can be stopped as well, covering the Russian aggression," he said, praising Trump's "outstanding" Middle East ceasefire plan and calling for the President to influence the Russian government into talks.
Moscow's assaults on Ukraine killed at least five people on the weekend and caused blackouts to areas of Ukraine's southern Odesa region, per authorities in Ukraine.
Two people died within a religious building in Kostyantynivka when it was hit, as reported by municipal sources.
In Russia's adjacent territory of Belgorod, a truck driver was killed by a drone assault, according to regional authorities.
Efforts continued on the weekend to recover electricity in the Ukrainian capital, after strikes by Moscow.
Electricity had been returned to more than 800,000 residents by the weekend and the largest power firm stated the key operations to repair the grid was finished though partial blackouts persisted.
Ukraine's air defences neutralized 54 of 78 total enemy drones deployed against Ukraine in the dark hours, the aerial defense command said on the weekend.
The Russian military authorities said it intercepted 42 enemy Ukrainian drones over its own soil.
Havana on Saturday refuted American assertions it has deployed soldiers to fight in the Ukraine war, while stating the government "do not have precise details about Cuban nationals" involved "independently" or "as part of the armed units of both sides".
The foreign ministry in the capital said twenty-six nationals had been convicted to prison terms varying between five to 14 years for mercenary involvement since the autumn of 2023 when news circulated of Cubans being sent to the front in Ukraine.
The program, a official Kyiv project that urges opposing fighters to give up, said in May: "We have confirmed the personal data of 1,028 individuals who enlisted with the Moscow's troops in the past two years."
The Cuban authorities said of those who might be involved: "There is no doubt that no individual has the backing, dedication, or consent of the Cuban state for their involvement."
Relatives of individuals who traveled to the Russian Federation in 2023 told international media at the time that their relatives had been tricked into joining through advertisements on digital networks.
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