Russian sub forced to surface near Brittany, France
Russian submarine surfaces off the coast of France (Photo: NATO Maritime Command/X)
The Russian submarine B-261 Novorossiysk surfaced near the coast of Brittany in northwestern France, the country's Navy frigate was deployed to monitor the vessel, NATO’s Naval Command reported on X on Oct. 9.
“A French Navy frigate conducts surveillance of the Alliance’s maritime approaches, marking the presence of a Russian submarine operating on the surface off the coast of Brittany," the officers wrote.
"NATO stands ready to defend our Alliance with constant vigilance and maritime awareness across the Atlantic”
Telegram channel VChK-OGPU, close to Russian military sources, wrote that the diesel-electric submarine was forced to surface due to a serious technical failure in its fuel system.
Fuel reportedly began leaking directly into the bilge, creating a highly explosive situation. The submarine lacked both the necessary spare parts and specialists to repair the malfunction, and the crew was unable to resolve the issue on their own.
Novorossiysk is part of the 4th Separate Submarine Brigade of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. It was laid down in St. Petersburg in 2010, launched in 2013, and commissioned into the Russian Navy in 2014.
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