{"id":57104,"date":"2026-04-28T05:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=57104"},"modified":"2026-04-28T05:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:54:17","slug":"drone-attack-causes-fire-at-russias-tuapse-refinery-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=57104","title":{"rendered":"Drone attack causes fire at Russia&#8217;s Tuapse refinery, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Reuters)    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MOSCOW, April 28 &#8211; Ukrainian drones attacked Russia&#8217;s Tuapse oil refinery on the Black Sea, causing a \u200bfire, authorities said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It \u200bwas the latest of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/fire-after-ukrainian-attack-russias-tuapse-refinery-hits-air-quality-2026-04-22\/\">repeated<\/a>&nbsp;drone attacks \u2060in the past few weeks on \u200bthe Rosneft&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/companies\/ROSN.MM\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(ROSN.MM), opens new tab<\/a>-owned refinery and the port of \u200bTuapse that led to an oil spill at sea and a blaze that took several \u200bdays to put out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The refinery, which \u200bdelivers oil products mainly for exports, had stopped \u200coperations \u2060from April 16 after a drone attack, industry sources have said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukraine has ramped up its strikes on Russia since \u200bMarch as \u200bthe \u2060U.S.-brokered peace talks have been paused with Washington mainly focusing \u200bon the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/iran\/\">war in Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tuapse \u200brefinery \u2060has annual production capacity of about 12 million metric tons, or 240,000 barrels \u2060per \u200bday, turning out naphtha, \u200bdiesel, fuel oil and vacuum gasoil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> (Reuters)    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MOSCOW, April 28 (Reuters) &#8211; Ukrainian drones attacked Russia&#8217;s Tuapse oil refinery on the Black Sea, causing a \u200bfire, authorities said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It \u200bwas the latest of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/fire-after-ukrainian-attack-russias-tuapse-refinery-hits-air-quality-2026-04-22\/\">repeated<\/a>&nbsp;drone attacks \u2060in the past few weeks on \u200bthe Rosneft&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/companies\/ROSN.MM\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(ROSN.MM), opens new tab<\/a>-owned refinery and the port of \u200bTuapse that led to an oil spill at sea and a blaze that took several \u200bdays to put out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The refinery, which \u200bdelivers oil products mainly for exports, had stopped \u200coperations \u2060from April 16 after a drone attack, industry sources have said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukraine has ramped up its strikes on Russia since \u200bMarch as \u200bthe \u2060U.S.-brokered peace talks have been paused with Washington mainly focusing \u200bon the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/iran\/\">war in Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tuapse \u200brefinery \u2060has annual production capacity of about 12 million metric tons, or 240,000 barrels \u2060per \u200bday, turning out naphtha, \u200bdiesel, fuel oil and vacuum gasoil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) MOSCOW, April 28 &#8211; Ukrainian drones attacked Russia&#8217;s Tuapse oil refinery on the Black Sea, causing a \u200bfire, authorities said on Tuesday. It \u200bwas the latest of&nbsp;repeated&nbsp;drone attacks \u2060in the past few weeks on \u200bthe Rosneft&nbsp;(ROSN.MM), opens new tab-owned refinery and the port of \u200bTuapse that led to an oil spill at sea and a blaze that took several \u200bdays to put out. The refinery, which \u200bdelivers oil products mainly for exports, had stopped \u200coperations \u2060from April 16 after a drone attack, industry sources have said. Ukraine has ramped up its strikes on Russia since \u200bMarch as \u200bthe \u2060U.S.-brokered&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57104","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\/57104","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=57104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57106,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57104\/revisions\/57106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}