{"id":1279814,"date":"2025-08-14T11:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/a-powerful-explosion-thundered-in-rostov-what-is-known\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T11:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:18:12","slug":"a-powerful-explosion-thundered-in-rostov-what-is-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/a-powerful-explosion-thundered-in-rostov-what-is-known\/","title":{"rendered":"A powerful explosion thundered in Rostov: what is known"},"content":{"rendered":"

A powerful explosion was heard in the city center of Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on Thursday, August 14.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is reported by Russian sources.<\/p>\n

Eyewitnesses posted a video of a thick column of black smoke rising from the Voroshilivskyi Avenue area, in the very center of the city. The nature of the explosion has not yet been officially confirmed. <\/p>\n

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Local authorities have so far refrained from commenting. Meanwhile, residents are complaining about disruptions in mobile communications and internet access. In some areas, the network is unstable or completely absent. <\/p>\n

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Earlier, Rostov Oblast was warned of the threat of drone attacks. It is not yet known whether the explosion is related to an air strike. Emergency services are working at the scene.<\/p>\n

As a reminder, unknown drones carried out an attack on the Volgograd region, as a result of which the debris caused a fire at an oil refinery.<\/a><\/p>\n

As reported, on the night of August 13 , units of the missile forces and artillery and the GUR, in cooperation with other components of the SOU, struck a number of important Russian targets.<\/a><\/p>\n

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A powerful explosion was heard in the city center of Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on Thursday, August 14. This is reported by Russian sources. Eyewitnesses posted a video of a thick column of black smoke rising from the Voroshilivskyi Avenue area, in the very center of the city. The nature of the explosion has not yet been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1279802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1279814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1279802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}