In August 2000, the Russian nuclear-powered submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea after an explosion in its torpedo room, ...

On August 12, 2000, two explosions shook the Barents Sea, marking the beginning of a tragic disaster for the Russian submarine Kursk. The Oscar-class submarine, designed to carry cruise missiles, ...

Ten Russian children whose lives were shattered by the Kursk submarine disaster were today welcomed to Britain at the start of a week-long holiday. Each child lost their father when the stricken ...

Russia’s ability to wage war - and repel occupying Ukrainian troops in Kursk - has almost certainly been badly compromised by ...

It would be a complete disaster for him if the invasion failed. The failure of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region ...

And it also regained the initiative with its surprise incursion into the Russian region of Kursk in August, even while gradually losing ground in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine remains locked in a ...

Currently, the prospects of such a disaster are focused on Russia, where that country’s massive Kursk nuclear power plant is the latest such facility to find itself literally in the line of fire ...

Two months later, and Kyiv's small – albeit astonishing – occupation of Russian territory is going strong. Western officials ...

Once inside the Kursk region, they rushed through the town ... “It is a great tragedy, a great disaster, a great misfortune for civilians,” he said. “And everyone finds themselves in similar ...

Since 2000, the Russian Navy further had its own share of submarine disasters. The first one was also the worst when in August 2000, the nuclear-powered Kursk sank in the Barents Sea due to an ...