A RUSSIAN cargo ship exploded and sunk off the coast of Spain whereas on a secret mission for Vladimir Putin.
Ursa Main travelled by way of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean earlier than it reportedly suffered an explosion within the engine room inflicting it to closely checklist.
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The closely itemizing boat then sank between Spain and Algeria because it was heading east.
Two of the 16 crew members on the boat are actually reported lacking with these rescued taken to the Spanish port of Cartagena.
The Ursa Main’s objective on the voyage is unclear, with Ukraine saying it was on its technique to transport weapons.
Ukrainian army intelligence and Spanish sources urged the Ursa Main was heading to Syria to take away tools from the nation following the autumn of dictator Bashar al-Assad.
However the official Russian model is that it was en route for Vladivostok, carrying big cranes weighing 380 tons every, meant for the development of a contemporary nuclear icebreaker.
An official Russian assertion stated: “To make sure the steadiness of the vessel when performing cargo operations with outsized cargo, containers had been loaded onto the decrease deck upfront as extra ballast [in a] complicated cargo dealing with operation.”
Ursa Main had left St Petersburg 12 days in the past and sailed through the North Sea and English Channel.
If it was going to Syria it might probably have been resulting from name at Tartus, the place the Russian naval base is, to gather cargo certain for naval port Vladivostok.
It had been resulting from transit the Suez Canal.
The boat suffered an explosion within the engine at 12.30pm on Monday which brought on the boat to closely checklist, La Verdad studies.
A Russia Navy ship needed to go and supply help with the rescue.
The ship’s captain stated it was carrying containers that had been empty on the time of the accident.
Russian outlet Mediazona, reported that 5 Russian cargo ships, together with three giant army touchdown ships and two cargo vessels, have lately entered the Mediterranean.
Each the Ursa Main and one other ship, the Sparta, had lengthy been concerned within the so-called “Syrian Specific”, a provide route for Russian forces in Syria.
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Bloodthirsty dictator Assad was faraway from energy final week in an unbelievable 10-day blitz by insurgent forces.
He fled to Russia – the place longtime pal Putin gave him sanctuary – and the place the twisted pair will now be licking their wounds after a double-pronged defeat.
However issues have gone from dangerous to worse for Assad together with his spouse Asma submitting for divorce, studies declare.
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