Ukrainian drones have hit Russia's oil processing plant in the city of Ufa, positioned approximately 1,400 kilometres from the Ukrainian border, resulting in blasts and a blaze, as reported by a insider in Ukraine's Security Service.
This constitutes the third SBU far-reaching assault in the region in the past month. Those strikes show that there are no protected areas in the deep rear of the Russian state.
The Ukrainian leader urged Donald Trump to mediate a ceasefire in Ukraine in a telephone conversation on the weekend.
"Provided that a war can be stopped in a particular zone, then surely other wars can be ended as well, including the Russian war," he said, praising Trump's "exceptional" Middle East ceasefire plan and urging the American leader to pressure the Kremlin into discussions.
Russian attacks on Ukraine claimed the lives of several civilians on Saturday and cut power to areas of the southern Odesa area, as stated by Ukrainian officials.
Two people lost their lives in a religious building in Kostyantynivka when it was targeted, as reported by 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.
Operations proceeded on Saturday to repair energy infrastructure in Kyiv, after assaults.
Electricity had been recovered to more than 800,000 citizens by Saturday and the largest power firm announced the main operations to recover electricity was finished though some outages persisted.
Ukraine's defense forces downed or disrupted 54 of 78 Russian drones launched targeting the country during the night, the air force announced on the weekend.
The Russian defense officials said it intercepted 42 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory.
Cuba on the weekend denied American allegations it has provided soldiers to fight in the Ukraine war, while affirming officials in Havana "are without accurate information about citizens of Cuba" engaged "on their own" or "as part of the armed units of both sides".
The foreign ministry in the capital stated 26 nationals had been convicted to incarceration varying between 5 to 14 years for mercenary involvement since the autumn of 2023 when reports emerged of individuals being deployed to the frontlines in Ukraine.
The surrender initiative, a Ukrainian government initiative that promotes adversaries to lay down arms, said in May: "We have confirmed the personal data of one thousand and twenty-eight individuals who entered into agreements with the Moscow's troops in 2023-2024."
The government in Havana said of Cuban nationals who might be engaged: "Undeniably that no individual have the encouragement, commitment, or authorization of the Cuban state for their actions."
Relatives of Cuban nationals who departed to Russia in 2023 reported to Agence France-Presse at the time that their relatives had been tricked into joining through promotions on social media.
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