MOSCOW/SEVASTOPOL Sept 9 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia's Black Sea Fleet denied an allegation on Wednesday that the naval unit's flagship, missile cruiser Moskva, caught fire at the Ukrainian port of Sevastopol, one of the fleet's bases, on September 7 and that about 10 sailors were injured in the blaze.
"Everything is all right aboard the cruiser, the information [about fire] is not true," fleet spokesman Andrei Krylov told Interfax.
Earlier, a source told Interfax that one of the Moskva's auxiliary compartments had caught fire on September 7, that about 10 sailors had been injured in it, and that a Black Sea Fleet hospital sent in ambulances to help them.
The source said there had been no fatalities and that the cause of the fire was unclear so far.
He also said the Moskva was currently in the Sevastopol Bay, its base.