The Cuban Foreign Ministry reported this Thursday that three ships and a submarine from the Russian Navy will dock in the port of Havana between June 12 and 17, a visit that “does not represent threats” to the Caribbean region. since “none of the ships are carrying nuclear weapons.” “This visit corresponds to the historical friendly relations between Cuba and the Russian Federation and strictly complies with the international regulations to which Cuba is a State Party,” the Ministry indicated in a statement. The delegation will be made up of the frigate ‘Gorshkov’, the nuclear-powered submarine ‘Kazan’, the oil tanker ‘Pashin’ and the rescue tug ‘Nikolai Chiker’. Cuba has defended that these visits are “a historical practice of the revolutionary Government with nations” with which it has “relations of friendship and collaboration.” This comes after a US official reported that Russia will carry out naval and air exercises in the Caribbean region in the coming weeks, which could also involve stops in Venezuela, according to several media outlets. Although the military maneuvers have been planned in advance, they follow the words of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, about possible retaliation due to Ukrainian attacks against Russian territory with Western weapons. The president mentioned the possibility of Moscow delivering military material to other countries to carry out “attacks against sensitive targets” of kyiv’s partners. Over the past few weeks, debate has raged over the possibility of the main Western powers granting permission to the Ukrainian Armed Forces to attack military positions on Russian territory from which Moscow carries out attacks against Ukraine. While some countries have given their approval to this possibility, other States are reticent about the possibility that Moscow will interpret this as an aggression against its sovereignty and decide to respond, thus initiating an escalation of tensions within the framework of the war in Ukraine. .
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