The vessel can reportedly have up to 25 people on board. Shortly after reports about the fire first surfaced, both Russian daily RBC and the Novaya Gazeta newspaper cited sources saying that the accident had taken place on a submersible called the AS-12, also nicknamed "Losharik" after a Soviet cartoon.
Locals in Severomorsk and nearby Murmansk told DW that they, too, were getting their information about the incident from the media. Putin asked his defense minister Sergei Shoigu to report back to him personally about the submarine disaster Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said it is normal that details of the accident cannot be made public, "There is some information that belongs in the category of state secrets." On Wednesday, another day later, Shoigu officially announced that while 14 members of the crew had died, "the remaining people could be saved." But he didn't say how many crew members were actually on the vessel during the fire. State television didn't report the story in their news bulletin until several hours after the Defense Ministry statement. "Work is underway to establish the cause of the incident." The head of the navy is now personally in charge of the investigation. "On July 1, a fire broke out during bathymetric measurements on a scientific research deep-sea submersible," the ministry said in comments carried by state media. The Ministry of Defense didn't report the incident until the day after it happened. Sitting across from each other in the Kremlin, the two men discussed the 14 navy personnel killed in a fire on a deep-sea vessel near Severomorsk.
"It's a huge loss for the navy - and for the military overall," Putin said in a televised meeting with Shoigu on Wednesday. All the necessary measures were taken by the crew to protect the reactor which is in complete working order," Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told Putin, according to a Kremlin transcript. ".The Nuclear reactor on the vessel is completely isolated and unmanned. Him that the stricken submarine's nuclear reactor had been contained. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that the defense minister had assured
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