A fire has broken out on the Russian large anti-submarine ship Admiral Levchenko in the Barents Sea, according to the head of the Strategic Communications Center of the Southern Defense Forces, Dmytro Pletenchuk.
He noted that the "struggle for survivability" continues on the ship.
According to Pletenchuk, the cause of the fire is that the Russians cannot independently service the ship's engines, which were made in Mykolaiv (Ukraine).
"Ten years were not enough to solve this problem. One of the installations caught fire," he added.
The spokesperson for the Operational Command South also mentioned that the ship's crew consists of several hundred sailors.
It's worth noting that the ship Admiral Levchenko was launched in 1985. Since 1989, it has been in service with the Russian Northern Fleet.
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