And wow....assuming true.
Dead sailors stopped a 'planetary catastrophe' aboard a secret submarine, a top Russian naval officer said at their funeral
A top Russian naval officer said the 14 Russian sailors who died in a fire aboard a secretive Russian submarine last week sacrificed themselves to prevent a "catastrophe" on a planetary scale, Bloomberg
reported on Monday, citing Russian media reports.
"With their lives," the unnamed Russian officer said at a funeral in St. Petersburg, Russia, "they saved the lives of their colleagues, saved the vessel and prevented a planetary catastrophe." The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who said he was unaware of the officer's comments, denied that there was any risk of a broader threat.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said last week that the submarine's nuclear reactor survived the fire because the crew took "necessary measures" to protect it, the Independent
reported.