A top secret Russian military submarine hit by a fire earlier this week was nuclear powered, Russia has admitted, with the country's defense minister saying the nuclear reactor has been contained.
Russia has been accused of something of a cover-up after it failed to reveal details of a fire on a military submarine that led to the deaths of 14 sailors.Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during a meeting at the Moscow Kremlin on July 4 2019.Russia has been accused of something of a cover-up after it failed to reveal details of a fire on a military submarine that led to the deaths of 14 sailors., reveals that the submarine was nuclear powered.
Mystery has surrounded exactly which submersible was involved in the incident. The Kremlin said Tuesday that a "deep-water research submersible in the Barents Sea" which was part of Russia's Northern Fleet suffered a fire in which 14 sailors died of smoke inhalation. Russia's defense ministry has not identified the vessel and Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday that he could not name the vessel because it "belongs to the highest level of classified data, so it is absolutely normal for it not to be disclosed."revealed that the submarine is a deep-water research submersible; Putin also said that it was "an unusual vessel" with a "highly professional crew.
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