{"id":1373358,"date":"2026-03-24T16:04:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/fire-after-drone-attack-oil-depot-in-russia-burns-for-second-day\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T16:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:04:20","slug":"fire-after-drone-attack-oil-depot-in-russia-burns-for-second-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/fire-after-drone-attack-oil-depot-in-russia-burns-for-second-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire after drone attack: Oil depot in Russia burns for second day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In the Leningrad Region of Russia, for the second day now, they have been unable to extinguish a fire at an oil depot in the port of Primorsk.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/radiosvoboda\/95273\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">was reported<\/a> by the Russian service of Radio Liberty.<\/p>\n<p> The facility reportedly caught fire after a drone attack on March 23. Thick smoke still rises above the area, visible even in cloudy weather. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/original-8-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1373349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/original-8-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/original-8-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/original-8-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/original-8-650x366.jpg 650w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/original-8.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> There is currently little information about the extent of the damage.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, on the night of March 23 <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/drony-atakuvaly-naybilshyy-naftonalyvnyy-port-rf-na-baltiyskomu-mori\/\">, explosions were heard in the port of Primorsk in the Leningrad Region of Russia, followed by a fire at the oil terminal<\/a> . As a result of the attack, a fuel tank was damaged, the facility&#8217;s operations were stopped, and personnel were evacuated.<\/p>\n<p> As reported, the Russian <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/drony-atakuvaly-kliuchovi-porty-rf-eksport-nafty-z-portiv-baltyky-chastkovo-zupynyly\/\">ports of Primorsk and Ust-Luga suspended shipments of oil and petroleum products after a drone attack<\/a> on Sunday, March 22.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/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=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Leningrad Region of Russia, for the second day now, they have been unable to extinguish a fire at an oil depot in the port of Primorsk. This was reported by the Russian service of Radio Liberty. The facility reportedly caught fire after a drone attack on March 23. Thick smoke still rises above [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1373352,"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-1373358","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\/1373358","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=1373358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1373352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}