The ship, identified by the General Staff as patrol icebreaker "Pruga," was docked at a shipyard in Vyborg when it was hit, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Coast Guard commissioned its first oceangoing icebreaker in 25 years on Saturday, a former commercial vessel that will ...

China and Russia have a big lead in efforts to control once impenetrable Arctic waters. The U.S. is spending billions on new ...

Russia is expected to increase its fleet of icebreakers as there could be large-scale expansion of the Northern Sea Route for trade. Rosatom Director General Alexei Likhachev recently suggested that ...

February 6, 2026: Russia is having problems building new icebreaker ships because of the Ukraine War related economic sanctions. Despite the sanctions, Russia wants to build as many as 17 nuclear ...