A Russian ship with an unusual cargo suffered a series of explosions and sank in unexplained circumstances off the coast of Spain, a CNN investigation has found.
  • frongt@lemmy.zip
    112·
    5 days ago

    After the sinking, Russian newspaper Kommersant reported the Ursa Major was carrying port cranes and hatches designed to cover the nuclear reactors of a new icebreaker being built in Vladivostok.

    Hmm, that makes sense, if they’re too big to transport by rail. But still, why was it headed into the Mediterranean if they were going to be delivered to Vladivostok or North Korea? Is Russia building ships for North Korea in Sevastopol or Novorossiysk?

    • fullsquare@awful.systems
      41·
      4 days ago

      it was heading from baltic. well, maybe they used to in vladivostok, but probably no longer

      On October 13, 2022, Vostochnaya Verf filed an application with the Primorsky Krai Arbitration Court with a request to declare it bankrupt. According to the results of 2021, the company received a large loss and cannot pay for its obligations.[8]

      also lots of heavy industry is where people live, that is in western part of russia. otherwise you have to haul steel all the way there, it would make complete sense to put the only nuclear reactor factory in area where you have all the specialists

  • Dragomus@lemmy.world
    7·
    4 days ago

    This is not recent news …
    But for some odd reason I keep seeing this story pop up on random sites at least monthly this year.