{"id":701,"date":"2026-03-04T19:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/?p=701"},"modified":"2026-03-04T19:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:16:15","slug":"u-s-sub-sinks-iranian-warship-off-sri-lanka-killing-87-and-expanding-war-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/2026\/03\/04\/u-s-sub-sinks-iranian-warship-off-sri-lanka-killing-87-and-expanding-war-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GALLE (Voice Of Russia): A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington&#8217;s pursuit of the Iranian navy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">Sri Lanka&#8217;s deputy foreign minister identified the warship as the frigate IRIS Dena, and said it was heading back to Iran\u00a0from an eastern Indian port.<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-1\"><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">The attack happened hundreds of miles across the Indian Ocean from the Gulf, where U.S. \u200band Israeli forces are striking Iaran\u00a0and Tehran is retaliating with missile and drone attacks.<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-1\"><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">\n<div class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF\" data-testid=\"paragraph-3\">&#8220;An American submarine sank an Iranian warship that thought it was \u200bsafe in international waters,&#8221; U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said at the Pentagon. &#8220;Instead, it was sunk by a torpedo. Quiet death.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF\" data-testid=\"paragraph-4\">\u2060Hospital authorities in the Sri Lankan port city of Galle said 87 bodies were brought in by military rescuers who responded to an early morning distress \u200bcall.<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-5\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF\" data-testid=\"paragraph-5\">Another 32 were rescued and were being treated at hospital and about 60 people were likely unaccounted for from an estimated 180 people on board, Sri Lankan \u200bauthorities said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__base__o--Cl body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__promo-box__hVl8h\" data-testid=\"promo-box\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GALLE (Voice Of Russia): A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/r0_0_800_600_w800_h600_fmax.jpg",800,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/r0_0_800_600_w800_h600_fmax-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/r0_0_800_600_w800_h600_fmax-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/r0_0_800_600_w800_h600_fmax-768x576.jpg",640,480,true],"large":["https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/r0_0_800_600_w800_h600_fmax.jpg",640,480,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/r0_0_800_600_w800_h600_fmax.jpg",800,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/r0_0_800_600_w800_h600_fmax.jpg",800,600,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/r0_0_800_600_w800_h600_fmax-800x575.jpg",800,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/r0_0_800_600_w800_h600_fmax-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/category\/breaking-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Breaking<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/category\/world-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">World<\/a>","tag_info":"World","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofrussia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}