The presence of russian warships –including a nuclear submarine– just 30 miles off the coast of southern Florida triggered the alert on Tuesday in USA.
According to statements made to Miami Herald By Pentagon officials, the US Navy deployed several warships and air force planes to follow the drift of the Russian nuclear submarine Kazanthe Admiral Gorshkov frigateand the two logistics ships on their route to the Cuban port of Havana.
The United States denounces that this Russian flotilla will participate in air and naval military exercises in the Caribbean. However, the Cuban Foreign Ministry denied this and stated that it was a courtesy visit without military purposes, and that the ships were not transporting nuclear weapons.
However, as confirmed by the same Russian Ministry of Defense, the ships are involved in military maneuvers in the Atlantic Oceanalthough it has not specified whether they will be expanded to the waters surrounding Cuba.
In any case, the Pentagon has confirmed that the ships do not transport nuclear weapons, as stated by the Cuban Foreign Minister, although they do not rule out that the frigate transports hypersonic missiles.
The US Navy has monitored the movements of Russian ships by deploying three destroyers and an underwater reconnaissance plane, reported the Miami Herald.
The destroyers deployed by USA They are the USS Truxtun, the USS Donald Cook and the USS Delbert D. Black.
Besides, the US Navy It has also deployed the Coast Guard cutter Stone and a Boing P-8 maritime surveillance aircraft.
Despite the unusual presence of Russian warships in the neighborhood of the United States, the Pentagon He ruled out that the presence of the fleet represents “a direct threat against the United States.”
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