A fire broke out today onboard the Russian Navy’s sole aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, which has been undergoing a major overhaul in the country’s northwestern Murmansk region for more than four years, and which was just moved into a new and improvised drydock earlier this year.
This is not the first incident of its kind on the flattop in the course of this work, with another blaze having broken out on the ship in 2019.
The vessel had also suffered another fire while anchored off Turkey in 2009, which led to the death of a member of the crew.
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