A GUIDED missile from a Russian warship sank the Russian submarine Kursk, killing all 118 people on board, a German newspaper has reported, citing a report from the FSB domestic intelligence service in Moscow. The report, which the Berliner Zeitung daily said that FSB chief Nikolai Patruschev had handed to President Vladimir Putin, said the ”Granit” missile had been fired by the Russian warship Peter the Great as part of an exercise that had been going on since August 2. The newspaper said both the head of the Northern Fleet, Admiral Vyacheslav Popov, and its chief of staff, Vice-Admiral Mikhail Mozak, had been on board the warship on August 12, the day of the accident. The report did not say why the missile had hit the Kursk, but the newspaper said it could have been an error in a new weapon system or that the Kursk was not recognised as a friendly craft. The two explosions caused by the missile were visible from the bridge of the Peter the Great, the paper said. – Reuters