{"id":1319759,"date":"2025-11-13T08:56:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/a-series-of-powerful-explosions-rocked-oryol-russia-what-is-known\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T08:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:56:19","slug":"a-series-of-powerful-explosions-rocked-oryol-russia-what-is-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/a-series-of-powerful-explosions-rocked-oryol-russia-what-is-known\/","title":{"rendered":"A series of powerful explosions rocked Oryol, Russia: what is known"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A series of powerful explosions were heard in the Russian city of Oryol on the night of November 13. The incident occurred after a missile and drone alert was issued.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by Russian media.<\/p>\n<p> At around 4:30 a.m. local time, the authorities of Orel and the Oryol region declared a missile alert and urged residents to stay in shelters. A few minutes later, the alarm was sounded, but soon residents began reporting loud explosions and the operation of air defense systems.<\/p>\n<p> Local residents noted on social media that they saw unknown drones in the sky. According to preliminary data, air defense could have shot down several air targets, some of the debris fell in residential areas of the city. The moment of the debris fall was captured on video, which is actively distributed in local public forums.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 464px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1319759-1\" width=\"464\" height=\"848\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/original-2.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/original-2.mp4\">https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/original-2.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p> Orel is an industrial city with several oil depots and military facilities. In particular, it is home to a base from which Russian forces launch Iranian Shahed suicide drones for attacks on Ukrainian territory. The base is known to have at least eight launch pads and a stretch of road about 2.8 km long, suitable for mobile launches.<\/p>\n<p> The city is located approximately 150 km from the northeastern border of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> The Russian Defense Ministry reported that last night their air defenses allegedly destroyed 130 drones that attacked the country&#8217;s territory.<\/p>\n<p> According to the agency, the largest number of attacks fell on the Kursk and Belgorod regions &#8211; 32 drones in each region. Another 20 targets were shot down over the Voronezh region.<\/p>\n<p> In addition, the Russians claim that 17 drones were eliminated over the Black Sea, seven over occupied Crimea, six in the sky over Orel Oblast, and five in the Krasnodar Territory.<\/p>\n<p> The Russian air defense also allegedly shot down four drones in the Tambov region, three in the Rostov region, two in the Bryansk region, and one each over the territories of the Tula and Moscow regions.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, on the night of November 12 <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/drony-atakuvaly-stavropolskyy-kray-rf-pid-udarom-opynyvsia-zavod-stavrolen\/\">, a series of powerful explosions were heard in the city of Budennovsk, Stavropol Territory of the Russian Federation, causing a fire in the territory of an industrial zone.<\/a> Local residents reported a glow over the city and flashes.<\/p>\n<p> As reported, on Tuesday, November 11, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/henshtab-pidtverdyv-udar-po-npz-v-orenburzkiy-oblasti-urazheno-ustanovku-z-pererobky-nafty\/\">the Ukrainian Defense Forces attacked a Russian oil refinery in the Orenburg region.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of powerful explosions were heard in the Russian city of Oryol on the night of November 13. The incident occurred after a missile and drone alert was issued. This is reported by Russian media. At around 4:30 a.m. local time, the authorities of Orel and the Oryol region declared a missile alert and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1153709,"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-1319759","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\/1319759","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=1319759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1153709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}