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Ukrainian UAVs have targeted Russia's oil refinery in Ufa, positioned some 1,400 kilometres from the Ukrainian border, causing blasts and a fire, according to a insider in Ukraine's Security Service.

This constitutes the 3rd Ukrainian security service far-reaching assault in the region in the last month. These attacks demonstrate that there are no safe places in the far hinterland of the Russian state.

Ukrainian President Urges Trump to Mediate Truce in the Conflict

Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed to the US President to broker peace in Ukraine during a telephone conversation on the weekend.

"If a conflict can be stopped in one region, then certainly other wars can be halted as well, encompassing the Russian aggression," he stated, hailing Trump's "exceptional" Middle East peace initiative and urging the US president to pressure the Moscow into negotiations.

Moscow's Strikes Claim Lives in the Country

Strikes by Russia on Ukrainian territory resulted in the deaths of several civilians on Saturday and caused blackouts to parts of the southern Odesa area, as stated by Ukrainian officials.

Two civilians died inside a religious building in the town when it was hit, per municipal sources.

In Russia's border region of Belgorod, a truck driver was fatally wounded by a attack from Ukraine, as stated by local officials.

Power Restoration Work in the Capital

Efforts carried on on the weekend to recover electricity in Kyiv, after Russian attacks.

Electricity had been restored to more than 800,000 inhabitants by Saturday and the major private energy company said the primary efforts to recover electricity was finished though some outages continued.

Anti-Aircraft Operations and Drone Downings

The Ukrainian anti-aircraft systems neutralized 54 out of 78 Russian drones deployed against the country during the night, the aerial defense command said on Saturday.

Russia's defense officials stated it shot down forty-two UAVs from Ukraine over Russian territory.

Cuban Government Denies Allegations of Deploying Soldiers to Ukraine

Havana on the weekend rejected US allegations it has provided military personnel to engage in the conflict in Ukraine, while affirming the government "are without exact information about citizens of Cuba" involved "voluntarily" or "as part of the armed units of both sides".

The government department in the capital announced 26 nationals had been convicted to incarceration from five up to fourteen years for mercenary activity since last September when reports spread of Cuban nationals being dispatched to the frontlines in the conflict.

I Want to Live Initiative Discloses Details on Cuban National Involvement

The surrender initiative, a official Kyiv initiative that promotes adversaries to give up, stated in spring: "We reliably know the names and personal details of one thousand and twenty-eight Cubans who signed contracts with the Moscow's troops in recently."

The Cuban foreign ministry stated of Cubans who might be engaged: "There is no doubt that no individual has the backing, allegiance, or consent of the Cuban state for their involvement."

Family members of individuals who left for the Russian Federation in the year informed news outlets at the time that their relatives had been tricked into joining through advertisements on social media.