It will arrive in Cuba on Wednesday of next week and will remain in its waters until the 17th of this month.
The Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces confirmed this on Wednesday in Washington: a Russian naval detachment will arrive in Havana on Wednesday of next week and will remain in its waters until the 17th of this month.
The detachment sent by the Kremlin, which according to American sources will continue route to VenezuelaIt is composed of three ships and a nuclear-powered submarine. These are the frigate Gorshkov, the oil tanker Pashin and the rescue tug Nikolai Chiker, as well as the submarine Kazan.
“This visit corresponds to the historical friendly relations between Cuba and the Russian Federation and strictly adheres to the international regulations to which Cuba is a State Party,” the Cuban Foreign Ministry said in its statement, which added that not even the Kazan submarine Not even the ships carry nuclear weapons.
“It is a historical practice of the revolutionary Government with nations that maintain relations of friendship and collaboration,” says the Foreign Ministry. So much Cuba as Venezuela and Nicaragua they are the big ones allies of Vladimir Putin in the Americaswhere they also have an important propaganda and ideological apparatus.
The Havana government thus distances itself from the “military exercises” in the Caribbean Sea, with stops in ports in Venezuela and Cuba, as anticipated from the United States.
After Putin’s warning
The confirmation of the arrival of the Russian naval detachment to the Caribbean occurs hours after Vladimir Putin warned the West that answer to “asymmetrically” supply of high-precision ammunition to Ukraine. “Why don’t we have the right to send weapons of the same type to regions of the world where sensitive installations of countries that act against Russia will be attacked?” the Russian president threatened.
“The Russian flotilla does not represent any military threat to the United States, but it is part of Putin’s reaction to make your threats credible of using nuclear weapons or weapons capable of reaching Western territory,” Juan Antonio Blanco, president of the Cuba Siglo 21 ideas laboratory, stressed for EL MUNDO.
Another very different situation, according to the analyst, is the presence of Russian ships facing the interior of Cuba and Venezuela, which is holding presidential elections on July 28 with Nicolás Maduro far behind the opposition candidate, diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia. “It is a form of support the two allied tyrannies that are reelinga message addressed to those two towns,” Blanco specified for this newspaper.
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