Istanbul : A Russian naval spy ship sank in the Black Sea off Turkey’s coast after hitting a Togo-flagged vessel packed with livestock but all of its 78 crew were rescued by Turkish coastguards.
The Russian military on Thursday said the Liman — a former research ship re-fitted as an intelligence vessel — had a hole ripped out of its hull in the collision with the Youzarsif H.
The collision, whose precise circumstances remain to be explained, took place in fog outside the northwestern entrance to the Bosphorus Strait.–AFP
