{"id":44322,"date":"2025-01-09T11:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T11:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=44322"},"modified":"2025-01-09T11:14:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T11:14:41","slug":"russian-plant-fire-rages-on-24-hours-after-ukrainian-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=44322","title":{"rendered":"Russian plant fire rages on, 24 hours after Ukrainian attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Reuters)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MOSCOW, Jan 9  &#8211; Russian firefighters were on Thursday still battling a fire reported to have broken out at an oil depot near an air base for strategic bombers in the Volga region, more than 24 hours after a Ukrainian drone attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It takes a certain amount of time to complete the burnout process. The situation is under control,&#8221; regional governor Roman Busargin said in a Telegram post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A state of emergency was in effect in Engels, a city of 200,000 people some 730 km (450 miles) southeast of Moscow, after the blaze spread and two firefighters died trying to put it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Busargin said the fire had broken out at an industrial site, which he did not name, after a mass drone attack. The Ukrainian military said on Wednesday that it had set fire to an oil depot that serves an air base for Russian nuclear-capable bombers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Engels is hundreds of kilometres from Ukraine. In December 2022, three Russian air force personnel were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/blasts-reported-russias-engels-air-base-online-media-2022-12-26\/\">killed<\/a>&nbsp;when a drone was shot down there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russian news reports also said the fire was at an oil facility. Videos and photos published on social media showed a large fire sending thick clouds of smoke into the night sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) MOSCOW, Jan 9 &#8211; Russian firefighters were on Thursday still battling a fire reported to have broken out at an oil depot near an air base for strategic bombers in the Volga region, more than 24 hours after a Ukrainian drone attack. &#8220;It takes a certain amount of time to complete the burnout process. The situation is under control,&#8221; regional governor Roman Busargin said in a Telegram post. A state of emergency was in effect in Engels, a city of 200,000 people some 730 km (450 miles) southeast of Moscow, after the blaze spread and two firefighters died trying&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44322","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\/44322","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=44322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44324,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44322\/revisions\/44324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}