{"id":572427,"date":"2026-08-30T06:45:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T03:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=572427"},"modified":"2026-08-30T10:48:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T07:48:31","slug":"kinef-oil-refinery-in-leningrad-region-catches-fire-after-drone-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/kinef-oil-refinery-in-leningrad-region-catches-fire-after-drone-attack","title":{"rendered":"KINEF Oil Refinery in Leningrad Region Catches Fire After Drone Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Eyewitnesses report that drones struck the Kirishinefteorgsintez (KINEF) oil refinery in the city of Kirishi in Russia\u2019s Leningrad Region. The attack was indirectly confirmed by Leningrad Region Governor <strong>Alexander Drozdenko<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Forty-two UAVs were shot down over the Leningrad Region. As a result of the UAV attack, a fire was reported in the industrial zone of the city of Kirishi, and emergency services are working at the scene. Combat operations continue&#8221;<\/em>, the Russian official wrote on his Telegram channel.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian monitoring channel @exilenova_plus added that the reported strike occurred in the area of the critical L-35-11\/1000, LCh-35-11\/600, LCh-35-11\/600 and AT-1 units, as well as the LCh-24-9\/2000 hydrotreating unit.<\/p>\n<p>Kirishinefteorgsintez is fully integrated into the structure of Russian oil company Surgutneftegas. It is the only oil refinery in northwestern Russia and one of the largest in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eyewitnesses report that drones struck the Kirishinefteorgsintez (KINEF) oil refinery in the city of Kirishi in Russia\u2019s Leningrad Region. The attack was indirectly confirmed by Leningrad Region Governor Alexander Drozdenko. &#8220;Forty-two UAVs were shot down over the Leningrad Region. As a result of the UAV attack, a fire was reported in the industrial zone of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":572426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a93e055077af.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"KINEF Oil Refinery in Leningrad Region Catches Fire After Drone Attack"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143291,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-army","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}