The blaze is the latest in a series of major accidents at Russia's beleaguered naval bases and shipyards in 2018.
Information is still coming in, but Russia's future Project 22600 icebreaker the
Viktor Chernomyrdin, which is under construction at Admiralty Shipyard in St. Petersburg, has caught fire, injuring at least two people in the process. This adds to a string of fires on board Russian government-owned vessels in 2018 and comes less than a month after a major Russian Navy accident in which the floating dry dock PD-50
sunk while the aircraft carrier
Admiral Kuznetsov was on board undergoing a major overhaul.
The fire broke out around 7:00 PM local time in St. Petersburg on Nov. 27, 2018. By approximately 9:00 PM, the fire reportedly spread to two of the ship's five decks and covered a total area of more than 3,000 square feet, according
to a statement from the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations. The fire eventually
spread to another deck. Some 15 fire trucks and more than 75 firefighters were on scene battling the blaze. Unconfirmed reports say that a short circuit started the fire and led to the initial injuries.
Comment: Notice the slightly disparaging tone that the author, likely American, has subtlety infused in his reportage.
According to
this, the
Chernomyrdin "was set to become the biggest and one of the most powerful diesel-powered icebreakers in the world."
Comment: It didn't take long for the regressive left to start eating its own. Fights within the social justice movement are likely to escalate even more in the near future, as divisions continue to multiply and previously 'oppressed' individuals see themselves recast as 'oppressor'. The entire ideology is a self-consuming black hole that will eventually work itself out of existence; but unfortunately, not without a number of casualties.
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