Admiral Kuznetsov, Russia’s only aircraft carrier ship which is now under repair, has caught fire, RIA Novosti cites Alexey Rakhmanov, chairman of the United Shipbuilding Corporation.
“There was a minor emergency during repair works. The fire has been extinguished. All fire systems have worked properly. No damage was inflicted and nobody was injured,” Rakhmanov says.
A total of 20 people were evacuated from the ship, TASS cites its source in the emergency services. “The flame base was in the cabin area aport. The fire was declared to be of high complexity,” TASS says.
The heavy aircraft cruiser has been under repair in Murmansk since 2017. It suffered an accident in 2018 during launch when a lift crane fell on it, damaging the deck. The ship suffered a fire in 2019 when one person was killed and 10 injured.
