{"id":52350,"date":"2025-08-04T01:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=52350"},"modified":"2025-08-04T01:24:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T22:24:00","slug":"ukrainian-drone-attack-sets-russian-oil-depot-on-fire-as-zelenskyy-announces-prisoner-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/ukrainian-drone-attack-sets-russian-oil-depot-on-fire-as-zelenskyy-announces-prisoner-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Drone Attack Sets Russian Oil Depot on Fire as Zelenskyy Announces Prisoner Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An overnight Ukrainian drone attack on an oil depot near Russia\u2019s Black Sea resort of Sochi sparked a major fire, Russian officials said Sunday, as the two countries traded strikes and the Ukrainian president announced a prisoner exchange.<\/p>\n<p>More than 120 firefighters attempted to extinguish the blaze, sparked after debris from a downed drone struck a fuel tank, Krasnodar regional Gov. Veniamin Kondratyev said on Telegram. Videos on social media appeared to show huge pillars of smoke billowing above the oil depot, The AP news reported.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, temporarily stopped flights at Sochi\u2019s airport.<\/p>\n<p>Further north, authorities in the Voronezh region reported that four people were wounded in another Ukrainian drone strike.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said its air defenses shot down 93 Ukrainian drones over Russia and the Black Sea overnight into Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in southern Ukraine, a Russian missile strike hit a residential area in the city of Mykolaiv, according to the State Emergency Services, wounding seven people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An overnight Ukrainian drone attack on an oil depot near Russia\u2019s Black Sea resort of Sochi sparked a major fire, Russian officials said Sunday, as the two countries traded strikes and the Ukrainian president announced a prisoner exchange. More than 120 firefighters attempted to extinguish the blaze, sparked after debris from a downed drone struck &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52352,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52350\/revisions\/52352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}