Contents tagged with ships

  • Russia scraps nuclear-powered icebreaker The Soviet Union due to sanctions

    Russian authorities have decided to scrap the Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker The Soviet Union. It will not be restored, despite earlier plans to use the ship in projects to develop the Arctic or engage it within the Russian Armed Forces.Rosatomflot's General Director, Vyacheslav Ruksha , shared this with RIA Novosti.

    According to Ruksha, the official order has already been signed. He said that the icebreaker could be claimed for offshore projects, but because of Western sanctions against …

  • Latvia reports the approach of three Russian ships close to its borders

    Latvia stated that three Russian ships approached its borders. This was reported by the country’s national armed forces on its Twitter account.

    “In the waters of Latvia’s exclusive economic zone, four miles from its territorial waters, were three corvettes – the Liven 551, the Serpukhov 603 and the Morshansk 824,” the report said.

    In April, the Latvian National Armed Forces announced that a Russian Kilo-class submarine had been identified near the Latvian border.

    In January, Latvia also …

  • Russia to sell three Admiral Grigorovich-class frigates to India after failing to acquire Ukrainian engines

    Three Admiral Grigorovich-class (Project 11356M) frigates originally intended for use by the Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet will be sold to India, the Assistant Director to the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, Vladimir Drozhov, stated, RIA Novosti reported.

    The sale of the naval vessels was the result of an agreement signed in October 2016 after talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

    The agreement assumes that two frigates …