The 2000 sinking of the Russian submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea remains one of the worst naval disasters in Russian ...

The Oscar II-class submarine, a nuclear-powered cruise-missile vessel designed to target U.S. and NATO battle groups, is one ...

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, ...

Kursk surprise came at a time when the drudgery of Russia’s assault on Ukraine felt as though it would continue uninterrupted ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The Kursk attack began as a brilliant success. The fear in Kyiv and the West is that there is still time for triumph to become tragedy. However, the British diplomat did warn against premature ...

However, it is crucial that Washington remember its top priority: to mitigate escalation and avoid the possibility of nuclear disaster. Kyiv has sought to use the incursion into Kursk to divert ...