{"id":1395638,"date":"2026-05-21T07:53:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T04:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/drones-attacked-the-syzran-oil-refinery-in-russia-smoke-rose-above-the-plant\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T07:53:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T04:53:29","slug":"drones-attacked-the-syzran-oil-refinery-in-russia-smoke-rose-above-the-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/drones-attacked-the-syzran-oil-refinery-in-russia-smoke-rose-above-the-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Drones attacked the Syzran oil refinery in Russia: smoke rose above the plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Explosions were heard near the Syzran oil refinery in Russia&#8217;s Samara region overnight. Local residents then reported a fire and thick smoke near the plant.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Russian Telegram channels are reporting on the incident.<\/p>\n<p> According to preliminary information, the Syzran refinery could have been hit.<\/p>\n<p> Eyewitnesses are publishing footage of the fire near the industrial zone. The Russian authorities have not officially commented on the attack and its consequences. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/original-11-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1395632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/original-11-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/original-11-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/original-11-488x650.jpg 488w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/original-11.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> The Syzran Refinery is part of Rosneft and is one of the largest oil refineries in the Russian Federation. The plant produces fuel, which is used, in particular, by the Russian army in the war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> The company has previously been the target of drone attacks on several occasions.<\/p>\n<p> As reported, on the night of Wednesday, May 20, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/drony-atakuvaly-khimzavod-i-npz-u-rosii-spalakhnuly-pozhezhi\/\">drones attacked the city of Nevinnomyssk in the Stavropol Territory of Russia.<\/a> The strike likely hit the Nevinnomyssk Azot chemical plant, causing a fire in the industrial zone.<\/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>Explosions were heard near the Syzran oil refinery in Russia&#8217;s Samara region overnight. Local residents then reported a fire and thick smoke near the plant. Russian Telegram channels are reporting on the incident. According to preliminary information, the Syzran refinery could have been hit. Eyewitnesses are publishing footage of the fire near the industrial zone. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1378986,"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-1395638","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\/1395638","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=1395638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1378986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}