{"id":1422627,"date":"2026-07-29T11:27:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T08:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/perm-under-attack-one-of-russias-largest-refineries-on-fire-after-explosions\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T11:27:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T08:27:04","slug":"perm-under-attack-one-of-russias-largest-refineries-on-fire-after-explosions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/perm-under-attack-one-of-russias-largest-refineries-on-fire-after-explosions\/","title":{"rendered":"Perm under attack: one of Russia&#8217;s largest refineries on fire after explosions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Wednesday, July 29, explosions were heard in Perm, Russia, during a drone attack. According to Russian Telegram channels and OSINT analysts, the Lukoil-Permnefteorgsintez oil refinery and industrial facilities in the city were hit. A fire broke out on the territory of the refinery.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The attack is reported by Russian public forums and the monitoring Telegram channel Exilenova+.<\/p>\n<p> According to them, the impact caused a fire in one of the refinery&#8217;s technological installations. Footage of the fire and thick smoke is also being shared online.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1422627-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4d3cb8f1-mobile.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4d3cb8f1-mobile.mp4\">https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4d3cb8f1-mobile.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p> In addition to the refinery, according to Russian sources, drones attacked the area of logistics facilities. Russian channels reported the operation of air defense systems and a series of explosions in the city. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1-681x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"681\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1422614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1-768x1155.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1-1021x1536.jpg 1021w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1-432x650.jpg 432w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry said that during the night, 295 Ukrainian drones were allegedly &#8220;intercepted and destroyed&#8221; over 11 regions of Russia and temporarily occupied Crimea. At the same time, the Russian side traditionally did not explain how fires broke out at industrial facilities after this. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-2-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1422617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-2-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-2-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-2-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-2-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-2-1152x2048.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-2-366x650.jpg 366w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> There is currently no official confirmation from the Ukrainian side of the strike on the enterprises.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, a series of explosions were heard in Ryazan, Russia, on the morning of Wednesday, July 29, during a massive drone attack. The strikes <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/vybukhy-ta-masshtabni-pozhezhi-drony-vdaryly-po-npz-i-skladu-wildberries-u-riazani\/\">caused major fires at at least two facilities: an oil refinery and the Wildberries sorting complex<\/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 Wednesday, July 29, explosions were heard in Perm, Russia, during a drone attack. According to Russian Telegram channels and OSINT analysts, the Lukoil-Permnefteorgsintez oil refinery and industrial facilities in the city were hit. A fire broke out on the territory of the refinery. The attack is reported by Russian public forums and the monitoring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1422607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76874,77303,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1422627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war","category-good-news","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422627","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=1422627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1422607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}