{"id":1374000,"date":"2026-03-26T08:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T06:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/in-russia-drones-hit-a-refinery-in-kirishi-powerful-explosions-thundered\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T06:20:20","slug":"in-russia-drones-hit-a-refinery-in-kirishi-powerful-explosions-thundered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/in-russia-drones-hit-a-refinery-in-kirishi-powerful-explosions-thundered\/","title":{"rendered":"In Russia, drones hit a refinery in Kirishi: powerful explosions thundered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the night of Thursday, March 26, a massive drone attack was recorded in the Leningrad region of the Russian Federation. A series of powerful explosions thundered there.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by Russian media.<\/p>\n<p> An industrial zone in the city of Kirishi, home to one of Russia&#8217;s largest oil refineries, has been hit. Local authorities have confirmed the attack on the area around the plant.<\/p>\n<p> This is the Kirish Refinery, which produces fuel and petrochemical products and is key for the region.<\/p>\n<p> Explosions were also reported in Vyborg &#8211; according to preliminary data, air defenses were operating there.<\/p>\n<p> Photos and videos are being posted on social media showing flares and a reddish sky \u2014 likely the effects of a drone attack. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/65726b9510de16d2ecd81228ae5a10db.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"503\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1373984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/65726b9510de16d2ecd81228ae5a10db.webp 900w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/65726b9510de16d2ecd81228ae5a10db-300x168.webp 300w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/65726b9510de16d2ecd81228ae5a10db-768x429.webp 768w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/65726b9510de16d2ecd81228ae5a10db-650x363.webp 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, on the night of March 25 <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/syly-oborony-urazyly-rosiyskyy-kryholam-u-leninhradskiy-oblasti-henshtab\/\">, the Defense Forces struck a ship of the Russian occupiers at the Vyborg Shipbuilding Plant in the Leningrad Region.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> As reported, on the night of March 25 <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/vazhlyvyy-zavod-ta-vuzly-zv-iazku-syly-oborony-urazyly-nyzku-rosiyskykh-ob-iektiv\/\">, the Defense Forces conducted an operation during which they managed to hit the Russian NOVATEK-Ust-Luga plant in the Leningrad Region.<\/a><\/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>On the night of Thursday, March 26, a massive drone attack was recorded in the Leningrad region of the Russian Federation. A series of powerful explosions thundered there. This is reported by Russian media. An industrial zone in the city of Kirishi, home to one of Russia&#8217;s largest oil refineries, has been hit. Local authorities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1135796,"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-1374000","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\/1374000","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=1374000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1135796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}