Top officials from his security apparatus and government will be moved to the secret location, according to the General SVR telegram channel. He believes the bunker is “safe” from Western attacks. She has been dubbed a "city killer" - its torpedos are 79ft long and carry a nuclear warhead, shooting towards enemy targets beneath the waves at terrifying speeds of about 80mph.īelgorod is the world's largest operational submarine (Image: Social media/ east2west news) The pictures, therefore, are said to bring an end to the question of whether it could have been involved in the sabotage. Images showed the submarine surfaced in the Barents on September 22 before another showed it on September 27, one day after the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic. READ MORE: Plymouth restaurant owner spends £10,000 after poor food hygiene rating These comparatively shallow waters are currently providing a key battleground for Putin's navy as the coasts belong to both Norway and Russia, reports Mirror Online. There were fears that Putin could detonate a nuclear weapon in a strong message to the West. Satellite pictures by expert naval observers operating in the Barents Sea, a part of the Arctic Ocean, are understood to have spotted the Belgorod submarine in recent days, the Sun reports. Belgorod - the world's largest operational submarine at 604ft and weighing in at 30,000 tonne - was 'lost' by Nato, prompting a warning to be issued two days ago. A huge submarine that is thought to be armed with Putin's Poseidon underwater drone missiles has been spotted by satellite.
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