UK sanctions halt much-needed floating repair dock for nuclear icebreaker fleet
Russia has no floating dock in the Arctic big enough to lift the four newest nuclear-powered icebreakers of the Project 22220. Consequently, the Arktika, Sibir, Ural and Yakutiya are forced to sail all around Scandinavia to the Baltic shipyard in St. Petersburg to do hull-repair work.
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