{"id":582423,"date":"2025-11-20T11:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/582423\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T11:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:38:13","slug":"bbc-verify-live-footage-shows-major-russian-refinery-ablaze-for-second-time-in-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/582423\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: Footage shows major Russian refinery ablaze for second time in a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to BBC Verify Livepublished at 10:35 GMT<\/p>\n<p>10:35 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ba9dfd94-7425-40e6-8383-0146a644d6db.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Rob Corp<\/strong><br \/>BBC Verify Live editor<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019re<br \/>\nlooking into reports an oil refinery is on fire in Ryazan, a city around 110<br \/>\nmiles (180km) south-east of Russia\u2019s capital Moscow. It\u2019s the same plant that<br \/>\nwas struck by Ukraine last weekend forcing it to suspend operations. The<br \/>\ngovernor of Ryazan region has reported drones being shot down overnight, saying<br \/>\ndebris from one caused a fire to break out at a business. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Images<br \/>\nshowing a blaze at a petrochemical facility in Venezuela on Wednesday are being shared online which we are<br \/>\nverifying. According to Reuters, an explosion was heard before the fire. It\u2019s<br \/>\nbeing reported that no-one was injured and it is not<br \/>\nclear yet what caused the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And<br \/>\nwe\u2019ve been investigating why the AI chatbot Grok has been telling users of the<br \/>\nsocial media platform X that US President Donald Trump did not say \u201cquiet<br \/>\npiggy\u201d to a reporter. Grok has been falsely saying Trump said \u201cquiet, Peggy\u201d &#8211;<br \/>\nbut there are reasons why that\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019ll<br \/>\nhave more from the BBC\u2019s team of fact-checkers, verification specialists and<br \/>\ndata journalists throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BBC Verify banner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/5d00d26e-7486-4fda-a658-894668130759.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"315\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to BBC Verify Livepublished at 10:35 GMT 10:35 GMT Rob CorpBBC Verify Live editor We\u2019re looking into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-582423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115581833231040498","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582423","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=582423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}