{"id":40820,"date":"2024-07-22T09:54:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T09:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=40820"},"modified":"2024-07-22T09:54:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T09:54:52","slug":"russias-tuapse-oil-refinery-damaged-in-ukraine-drone-attack-russian-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=40820","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s Tuapse oil refinery damaged in Ukraine drone attack, Russian officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Reuters)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MOSCOW, July 22 &#8211; Russia&#8217;s Tuapse oil refinery, its biggest on the Black Sea, was damaged in a major Ukrainian drone attack overnight which sparked a fire, Russian officials said on Monday, though the extent of the damage was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Debris from the drone, which was shot down, caused a fire at the refinery, which is owned by oil major Rosneft&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/companies\/ROSN.MM\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(ROSN.MM), opens new tab<\/a>, the officials said. The fire has since been contained, the regional administration said on the Telegram messaging app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia&#8217;s SHOT and Mash Telegram news channels reported that a series of blasts were heard near the refinery early on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were no casualties, officials said. Reuters was unable to immediately verify whether the refinery was operational or to establish the extent of the damage it had sustained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukraine has been systematically targeting Russian energy infrastructure in an attempt to disrupt Russia&#8217;s economy and its ability to fund what the Kremlin calls its special military operation in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukrainian officials say the attacks have been carried out in retaliation for Russian strikes on Ukraine&#8217;s energy system. Russia says the drone attacks by Ukraine amount to acts of terrorism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, Russia&#8217;s defence ministry said its air defence systems had destroyed a total of 75 drones launched overnight by Ukraine, including eight near Tuapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Tuapse plant, which has processing capacity of 240,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil, has been a target of several Ukrainian air attacks since the start of the war that Russia launched against Ukraine in 2022, including on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/russias-tuapse-oil-refinery-halted-after-ukrainian-drone-attack-sources-say-2024-05-17\/\">May 17<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) MOSCOW, July 22 &#8211; Russia&#8217;s Tuapse oil refinery, its biggest on the Black Sea, was damaged in a major Ukrainian drone attack overnight which sparked a fire, Russian officials said on Monday, though the extent of the damage was not immediately clear. Debris from the drone, which was shot down, caused a fire at the refinery, which is owned by oil major Rosneft&nbsp;(ROSN.MM), opens new tab, the officials said. The fire has since been contained, the regional administration said on the Telegram messaging app. Russia&#8217;s SHOT and Mash Telegram news channels reported that a series of blasts were heard&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40822,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40820\/revisions\/40822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}