{"id":30288,"date":"2026-08-19T07:53:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T07:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/30288\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T07:53:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T07:53:37","slug":"ukrainian-drone-strikes-oil-refinery-in-bashkortostan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/30288\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Drone Strikes Oil Refinery in Bashkortostan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian drones struck an oil refinery and a residential building in the republic of Bashkortostan, leaving at least one person injured, regional head Radiy Khabirov <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/radiyhabirov\/13652\" title=\"said\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Khabirov said air defense systems intercepted four of six drones that targeted the region overnight.\u00a0One drone sparked a fire at an oil refinery in the regional capital of Ufa, hitting a unit that was undergoing maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re currently assessing the damage, but preliminary reports indicate that a unit undergoing maintenance was hit. As always, falling debris damages pipes, so there\u2019s minor damage,\u201d Khabirov <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/proisshestviya\/28024389\" title=\"told\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> the state-run news agency TASS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI expect everything will be repaired in a couple of days,\u201d he was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Another drone crashed into a residential building in northern Ufa, shattering upper-floor windows and damaging parked cars,\u00a0Khabirov said. One person was hospitalized for injuries sustained during the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Videos and photos on social media purportedly showed\u00a0smoke rising from the blackened facade of the apartment building.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Located over 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) from the Ukrainian border, Bashkortostan is a major hub for Russia\u2019s oil processing industry. Ukraine has repeatedly targeted refineries and energy infrastructure in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/mod_russia\/66610\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> it intercepted 453 Ukrainian drones across Russia and annexed Crimea between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in Ukraine, authorities said at least six people were killed in separate Russian strikes on the southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian drones struck an oil refinery and a residential building in the republic of Bashkortostan, leaving at least&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6852,237,319],"class_list":["post-30288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-bashkortostan","tag-drones","tag-ukraine-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}