Two more Russian sailors who were initially reported among 27 missing personnel after the Moskva missile cruiser sank off the Ukrainian coast in April have been confirmed dead.
Fiona Hill, a British-born Russia expert and former White House intelligence adviser, said Putin s nuclear blackmail was likely to increase the international demand for nuclear arms.
Putin has launched a major salvage operation to the wreck of the downed Black Sea Fleet flagship to secure military secrets including coding devices and unexploded missiles, experts have claimed.