Reports of fire on Russia’s only aircraft carrier

Russia’s only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, caught fire on Thursday during maintenance work in Russia’s Arctic port in Murmansk, with three people wounded.

One source told the TASS news agency that the fire had started on the upper deck and that thick, black smoke was billowing from the vessel.

TASS reports that diesel fuel is currently burning, and the firefighting effort is carried out with the use of foam.

 

Via Reuters

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