Russian craft breached

MOSCOW: Russian Black Sea Fleet research vessel, the Liman, received a hull breach in the sea 40km from the Bosphorus, the Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement yesterday.

“On April 27, at 11.53 Moscow time, in the south-western part of the Black Sea, 40 kilometres northwest of the Bosphorus Strait, the research vessel of the Black Sea Fleet, the Liman, as a result of a collision with the Ashot-7 vessel... received a starboard hole below the waterline.

“No one was injured among the crew. The crew... are fighting for the survivability of the vessel,” the statement said. – Sputnik