Ukraine's drones have targeted the Russian Bashneft facility in the city of Ufa, positioned around 1,400 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, resulting in blasts and a blaze, as reported by a source in the Ukrainian intelligence agency.
This marks the latest intelligence deep strike in Bashkortostan in the recent weeks. Such strikes show that there are no protected areas in the distant backlines of the Russian Federation.
President Zelenskyy appealed to the US President to mediate a ceasefire in Ukraine in a telephone conversation on Saturday.
"Provided that a hostilities can be ended in a particular zone, then certainly further hostilities can be stopped as well, encompassing the Russian war," the President remarked, commending the US President's "outstanding" Middle East truce proposal and urging the US president to pressure the Moscow into talks.
Russian attacks on Ukrainian territory resulted in the deaths of five people on Saturday and caused blackouts to parts of the southern Odesa region, according to Ukrainian officials.
Two people lost their lives in a religious building in Kostyantynivka when it was struck, according to regional officials.
In Russia's border region of the Belgorod region, a vehicle operator was lost his life by a drone assault, according to local officials.
Operations continued on the weekend to repair energy infrastructure in the Ukrainian capital, after strikes by Moscow.
Energy had been restored to more than 800,000 inhabitants by the weekend and the major power firm stated the key work to recover electricity was complete though certain disruptions remained.
The Ukrainian air defences intercepted or jammed 54 out of 78 enemy drones sent against Ukraine in the dark hours, the aerial defense command said on the weekend.
Russia's defence ministry claimed it shot down forty-two drones over its own soil.
Cuba on Saturday rejected US assertions it has deployed military personnel to engage in the Ukraine war, while stating Cuban authorities "do not have accurate information about Cuban nationals" involved "independently" or "as part of the armed units of both sides".
The ministry in the capital announced 26 Cubans had been given prison terms to prison terms from five up to fourteen years for mercenary involvement since September 2023 when news circulated of Cubans being dispatched to the front in the conflict.
I Want to Live, a Ukrainian government project that urges opposing fighters to give up, said in May: "Our information indicates the identities and information of over a thousand Cuban nationals who signed contracts with the Russian military in the past two years."
The government in Havana stated of Cuban nationals who might be engaged: "It is irrefutable that none of them possesses the support, commitment, or approval of the Cuban authorities for their activities."
Family members of Cubans who left for Russia in the year told Agence France-Presse at the time that their family members had been deceptively recruited through ads on online platforms.
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