{"id":1442486,"date":"2026-09-22T09:19:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T06:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/powerful-fire-in-samara-drones-attacked-the-kuibyshev-refinery\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T09:19:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T06:19:23","slug":"powerful-fire-in-samara-drones-attacked-the-kuibyshev-refinery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/powerful-fire-in-samara-drones-attacked-the-kuibyshev-refinery\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful fire in Samara: drones attacked the Kuibyshev refinery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the night of September 22, drones attacked the Kuibyshev Oil Refinery in Samara. After the explosions, a large fire broke out on the territory of the enterprise, and a thick column of smoke rose above the plant.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The attack was reported by monitoring and OSINT channels. Local residents spoke of explosions preceded by the characteristic sound of drones flying. The released videos show a large-scale fire on the territory of the refinery.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 848px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1442486-1\" width=\"848\" height=\"848\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/original-1.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/original-1.mp4\">https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/original-1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p> Russian authorities have not yet said what exactly was damaged at the plant. According to some reports, the fire may have started in the area of the AVT-4 and AVT-5 primary oil refining units, but there is no official confirmation of this.<\/p>\n<p> Kuibyshev Refinery is part of the Russian Rosneft. The plant produces gasoline, diesel fuel, aviation kerosene, fuel oil and other petroleum products. Its design capacity is about 7 million tons of oil per year.<\/p>\n<p> The company has been the target of attacks on several occasions. The last time it was shut down before the current attack was on June 10, 2026.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, the General Staff and Special Operations Forces <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/henshtab-ta-sso-pidtverdyly-urazhennia-npz-v-moskvi-zelenskyy-kazhe-shcho-byly-palianytseiu-flaminho-ta-inshoiu-zbroieiu\/\">confirmed the damage to the Gazpromneft-Moscow Refinery in the Kapotny district of Moscow<\/a> on the night of September 20. A large-scale fire was recorded on the territory of the facility.<\/p>\n<p> As reported, on September 19 and on the night of September 20, the Ukrainian Defense Forces <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zrk-rls-i-punkty-upravlinnia-dronamy-syly-oborony-urazyly-novi-ob-iekty-rosiian\/\">struck the Buk-M3 air defense system, the Nebo-U radar, a drone production site, and command posts of the Russian occupiers.<\/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 September 22, drones attacked the Kuibyshev Oil Refinery in Samara. After the explosions, a large fire broke out on the territory of the enterprise, and a thick column of smoke rose above the plant. The attack was reported by monitoring and OSINT channels. Local residents spoke of explosions preceded by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1442475,"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-1442486","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\/1442486","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=1442486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1442475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}