{"id":72909,"date":"2025-12-18T04:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T01:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/ukrainian-drones-hit-tanker-in-russias-rostov-port\/72909\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T04:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T01:12:13","slug":"ukrainian-drones-hit-tanker-in-russias-rostov-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/ukrainian-drones-hit-tanker-in-russias-rostov-port\/72909\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Drones Hit Tanker in Russia&#8217;s Rostov Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"meta\">&#13;<br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-12-17T19:48:23.0000000\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n            <span class=\"date\">December 17, 2025<\/span>&#13;<br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2025-12-17T19:48:23.0000000\"\/>&#13;\n        <\/p>\n<div class=\"images-wrapper single\">\n<div class=\"images\">\n<div class=\"image active\">\n                <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        \u00a9 Peter Hermes Furian \/ Adobe Stock&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Ukrainian drones hit a tanker in the southern Russian port of Rostov-on-Don, killing and injuring a number of people and sparking a fire, the city&#8217;s mayor was quoted as saying early on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Emergency teams are extinguishing the fire on the tanker that was struck while docked in a drone attack,&#8221; Russian news agencies quoted Skriabin as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A leak of oil products was avoided. Unfortunately, there are dead and injured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Regional governor Yuri Slyusar had initially reported the Ukrainian strike on the vessel in the port and the casualties among the ship&#8217;s crew.<br \/>Slyusar also said parts of a high-rise apartment block under construction were damaged in the city and two private homes burned down in a nearby town.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Reuters &#8211; Reporting by Ronald Popeski; Editing by Chris Reese and Muralikumar Anantharaman)<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; December 17, 2025&#13; &#13; &#13; \u00a9 Peter Hermes Furian \/ Adobe Stock&#13; Ukrainian drones hit a tanker in the southern Russian port of Rostov-on-Don, killing and injuring a number of people and sparking a fire, the city&#8217;s mayor was quoted as saying early on Thursday. &#8220;Emergency teams are extinguishing the fire on the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/72910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}