{"id":1334162,"date":"2025-12-18T08:34:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/drones-hit-rostov-and-bataysk-a-ship-caught-fire-in-the-port\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T08:34:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:34:47","slug":"drones-hit-rostov-and-bataysk-a-ship-caught-fire-in-the-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/drones-hit-rostov-and-bataysk-a-ship-caught-fire-in-the-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Drones hit Rostov and Bataysk: a ship caught fire in the port"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the night of December 18, the Rostov region of the Russian Federation was attacked by drones. Rostov-on-Don, Bataysk, and Taganrog were hit.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was announced by the Governor of the Rostov Region, Yuri Slyusar.<\/p>\n

According to him, the attack in the port of Rostov damaged a ship, after which a fire broke out. Later, local authorities noted that it was a cargo ship that was near the pier. According to preliminary data, two crew members were killed, three more were injured.<\/p>\n

The mayor of Rostov-on-Don, Alexander Skryabin, said that a fire is being extinguished on a tanker that was hit. According to him, there are dead and injured crew members among the crew. According to Russian media, a spill of oil products was avoided.<\/p>\n

In addition, the consequences of the attack were recorded in Bataysk. Seven people were injured there: four received medical assistance on the spot, three were hospitalized. One of the victims later died in the hospital.<\/p>\n

Local residents reported explosions in Rostov-on-Don and Bataysk at around 11:30 p.m. Photos and videos of the explosions and the work of Russian air defense appeared on social networks. Power outages were also recorded in a number of settlements in the region.<\/p>\n

On the morning of December 18, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the alleged destruction of 47 drones over various regions of Russia overnight.<\/p>\n

As a reminder, on the night of December 17, drones attacked several regions of Russia, including the Krasnodar Territory, where an oil refinery in Slavyansk-on-Kuban was hit<\/a> . Air defenses were in place in the city, and local residents reported a series of explosions.<\/p>\n

As reported, on the night of December 12 , strike drones attacked the Slavneft-YANOS oil refinery in Yaroslavl, Russia.<\/a><\/p>\n

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On the night of December 18, the Rostov region of the Russian Federation was attacked by drones. Rostov-on-Don, Bataysk, and Taganrog were hit. This was announced by the Governor of the Rostov Region, Yuri Slyusar. According to him, the attack in the port of Rostov damaged a ship, after which a fire broke out. Later, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1334156,"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-1334162","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\/1334162","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=1334162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1334156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}