In August 2000, two explosions led Russian nuclear submarine Kursk to sink, claiming the lives of all 118 crew members.

A gripping new documentary has shed fresh light on the Kursk submarine disaster - one of Russia's most tragic military failures - and how it cemented Vladimir Putin's reputation as a leader who ...

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Russian investigators have shown journalists the charred and mangled inner compartments of the Kursk where many of the 118-strong crew died. "What happened inside these compartments was hell," said ...

Designed to be indestructible, the Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk met a tragic fate in 2000 when an explosion sent it crashing to the ocean floor. With no way to escape, its crew faced an ...

A new documentary on the tragedy which saw 118 Russian crew die when a nuclear submarine exploded and sank ... the nation's prized nuke-equipped sub, Kursk, exploded, making it the deadliest ...

Three months into Vladimir Putin’s new presidency, a blast in the Barents Sea ripped open and sank Russia’s prized nuclear submarine Kursk - in an explosion so powerful that its impact was ...