The Ministry of Defense called a fire in the battery compartment the cause of the disaster on board "Logarika"
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, said that the main reason for the disaster on board the deep -sea apparatus, in which 14 people were killed, was a fire in the battery compartment. This was reported by the RIA Novosti agency. According to Shoigu, the fire after that "was somewhat distributed." The minister noted that thanks to the actions of the crew, a nuclear power plant on the device was preserved in a working state.