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Fuel leaks at Primorsk, and \u2060NORSI oil refinery catches fire, Russian authorities say.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Published On 5 Apr 2026<\/span>5 Apr 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Ukrainian drones have struck Russia\u2019s Baltic Sea port of Primorsk and the NORSI oil refinery in the central Nizhny Novgorod region, according to Ukrainian drone \u200cforces commander Robert Brovdi.<\/p>\n The overnight attacks were first reported by Russian officials on Sunday.<\/p>\n list of 3 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n Alexander Drozdenko, governor of Russia\u2019s northwestern Leningrad region initially said a pipeline was damaged at Primorsk, one of Russia\u2019s main oil exporting outlets. He later said in a post on Telegram that a fuel reservoir in the port area leaked when it was hit by shrapnel.<\/p>\n In Nizhny Novgorod, Governor Gleb Nikitin said a fire had broken out at the NORSI oil refinery, Russia\u2019s fourth largest. He said two facilities at \u2060the plant were hit.<\/p>\n He said a power station \u2060and several houses were damaged during the attack although there were no injuries, according to preliminary information.<\/p>\n Primorsk, which is between the Finnish border and St Petersburg, was also attacked in March when an oil depot was set ablaze. \u2060<\/p>\n The port is used by Russia\u2019s oil transport company Transneft \u200cto ship oil abroad.<\/p>\n NORSI, which is also Russia\u2019s second largest producer of petrol, can process 16 million metric tonnes of oil per year, or about \u200c320,000 barrels per day.<\/p>\n Ukraine has stepped up attacks on Russian oil infrastructure in recent months in an effort to reduce a key source of revenue that funds Moscow\u2019s war on Ukraine.<\/p>\n At some point last month, \u2060about 40 percent of Russia\u2019s oil exporting capabilities were shut down due \u2060to the attacks, the closure of the Druzhba pipeline in Ukraine and the seizure of Russia-linked tankers.<\/p>\n Diplomatic efforts to end Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine have stalled in recent months.<\/p>\n The United States, Russia and Ukraine have held three rounds of high-level talks in Abu Dhabi and Geneva this year in a bid to negotiate an end to the war. No progress was made on the vital question of territorial concessions in eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n A fourth round of talks scheduled for last month was postponed due to the US-Israel war on Iran.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Fuel leaks at Primorsk, and \u2060NORSI oil refinery catches fire, Russian authorities say. Published On 5 Apr 20265 Apr 2026 Ukrainian drones have struck Russia\u2019s Baltic Sea port of Primorsk and the NORSI oil refinery in the central Nizhny Novgorod region, according to Ukrainian drone \u200cforces commander Robert Brovdi. The overnight attacks were first reported […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n
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