{"id":422334,"date":"2025-09-13T23:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T23:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/422334\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T23:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T23:56:12","slug":"ukraine-hits-one-of-russias-largest-oil-refining-complexes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/422334\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine hits one of Russia\u2019s largest oil refining complexes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A Ukrainian drone crashed into one of Russia\u2019s largest oil refining complexes on Saturday, sparking a fire and causing minor damage, a Russian official said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The complex, which belongs to Russian oil company Bashneft, lies on the outskirts of the central Russian city of Ufa around 1,400km (870 miles) from the front line in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Videos posted on social media appeared to show a drone drifting towards the facility before exploding in a ball of flames, sending a cloud of smoke into the sky.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cToday, Bashneft\u2019s facility was subjected to a terrorist attack by aircraft-type drones,\u201d the head of Russia\u2019s Bashkortostan region, Radiy Khabirov, said on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">One drone crashed into the plant, while another was shot down, he said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThere were no casualties or injuries. The production site sustained minor damage, and a fire broke out, which is currently being extinguished,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Ukrainian drone crashed into one of Russia\u2019s largest oil refining complexes on Saturday, sparking a fire and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[144362,144364,2000,299,10546,2301,144359,332,144363,18330,144360,657,144361],"class_list":{"0":"post-422334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-bashkortostan","9":"tag-bashneft","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-kyiv","13":"tag-moscow","14":"tag-radiy-khabirov","15":"tag-russia","16":"tag-russian-refineries","17":"tag-telegram","18":"tag-ufa","19":"tag-ukraine","20":"tag-ukrainian-drone"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115199697546305623","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}