🔗 Share this article Newest Oil Plant Attack Reveals 'Zero Secure Areas in Russia's Distant Backlines' Ukraine's drones have targeted Russia's oil processing plant in the city of Ufa, positioned around 1,400 km from Ukraine, causing blasts and a inferno, per a insider in Ukraine's Security Service. This constitutes the latest intelligence far-reaching assault in Bashkortostan in the last month. These attacks show that there are no safe places in the far hinterland of the Russian Federation. Ukrainian President Calls On US President to Mediate Ceasefire in the Conflict The Ukrainian leader called on the US President to facilitate a truce in Ukraine over a telephone conversation on Saturday. "Provided that a war can be halted in a particular zone, then certainly other wars can be ended as well, covering the Russian war," the President remarked, praising the US President's "outstanding" Middle East ceasefire plan and requesting the US president to compel the Kremlin into discussions. Russian Assaults Claim Lives in the Country Moscow's assaults on Ukrainian territory claimed the lives of 5 individuals on the weekend and disrupted electricity to areas of the southern Odesa region, as stated by local sources. Two civilians died in a church in the town when it was targeted, as reported by regional officials. In Russia's adjacent territory of the Belgorod region, a truck driver was lost his life by a Ukrainian strike, per local officials. Electricity Repair Work in the Capital Operations continued on Saturday to recover electricity in the Ukrainian capital, after assaults. Electricity had been returned to in excess of 800,000 residents by the weekend and the biggest private energy company said the key efforts to restore power was concluded though some outages persisted. Air Defence Actions and Drone Jamming Ukraine's defense forces intercepted or jammed 54 out of 78 total Russian drones deployed targeting Ukraine in the dark hours, the aerial defense command announced on Saturday. The Russian military authorities said it intercepted 42 drones over Russian territory. Cuba Denies Allegations of Providing Soldiers to Ukraine Havana on the weekend denied American assertions it has sent soldiers to engage in the Ukraine war, while stating the government "do not have precise data about individuals" engaged "voluntarily" or "within the troops of both sides". The government department in Havana said 26 Cuban citizens had been given prison terms to incarceration varying between 5 to 14 years for mercenary activity since the autumn of 2023 when reports circulated of Cuban nationals being dispatched to the frontlines in Ukraine. I Want to Live Program Discloses Information on Cuban National Recruitment I Want to Live, a official Kyiv program that encourages enemy combatants to give up, reported in May: "We reliably know the identities and information of over a thousand Cubans who enlisted with the Russian armed forces in 2023-2024." The government in Havana commented of those who might be engaged: "There is no doubt that none of them has the support, commitment, or approval of the Cuban state for their actions." Kin of Cubans who traveled to Russia in the year informed news outlets at the time that their relatives had been deceptively recruited through advertisements on online platforms.