Model of the Kursk nuclear submarine at the Lennusadam Maritime Museum in Tallinn, Estonia. Pjotr Mahhonin/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY During his first term, Vladimir Putin had to confront a raft of ...

The Kursk’s loss of its 118-person crew makes it one of the deadliest in modern history. In August 2000, the Russian nuclear submarine “Kursk” sailed to the Arctic Circle to participate in a scheduled ...

After the disaster at Stalingrad, Hitler pinned his hopes on a bold offensive to turn the tide in the East. Operation Citadel promised to crush the Soviet defenses at Kursk with new tanks like the ...

A fire broke out at the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant in Russia after Russian military forces shot down a Ukrainian drone flying near the plant, the press service of the plant said. The drone -- one of ...

Each day of war risks a strike on sites that could scatter radioactive material. Officials say one laboratory near the front ...

Russia has blamed Ukraine for hitting a nuclear power plant during a wave of drone strikes as Ukraine marked 34 years of independence. Russian officials claim the assault ignited a blaze at a nuclear ...