{"id":30060,"date":"2026-07-31T09:18:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T09:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=30060"},"modified":"2026-07-31T09:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T09:18:36","slug":"warehouse-of-wildberries-and-oil-refinery-catch-fire-in-volgograd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=30060","title":{"rendered":"Warehouse of Wildberries and oil refinery catch fire in Volgograd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the night of <strong>July 31<\/strong>, drones attacked the Russian city of <strong>Volgograd<\/strong>, triggering a large fire after a series of explosions. According to preliminary reports, the blaze engulfed a <strong>Wildberries<\/strong> warehouse and a local oil refinery. Local residents have been widely sharing photos and videos of the incident on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Images circulating online show a massive column of black smoke rising above the city and covering the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Initially, Russian monitoring channels were unable to determine which facility had been hit. Some reports suggested a Wildberries warehouse, while others pointed to the oil refinery. Later, analysts from the <strong>OSINT channel Exile+<\/strong> concluded that both sites were on fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian monitoring channels also reported that drones equipped with munition-drop systems were operating over Volgograd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The previous night, drones struck a <strong>Wildberries<\/strong> logistics complex in <strong>Sarapul<\/strong>, in Russia&#8217;s Udmurt Republic, causing a fire. The company&#8217;s warehouse in <strong>Penza<\/strong> was also attacked, and later reports confirmed that a Wildberries sorting center in the village of <strong>Zamulyanka<\/strong>, Perm Krai, had caught fire, becoming the third company facility targeted that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the night of July 31, drones attacked the Russian city of Volgograd, triggering a large fire after a series of explosions. According to preliminary reports, the blaze engulfed a Wildberries warehouse and a local oil refinery. Local residents have been widely sharing photos and videos of the incident on social media. Images circulating online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30062,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30060\/revisions\/30062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}