Madrid/The US Navy announced that one of its fast attack submarines arrived in Guantanamo Bay this Thursday. The presence of USS Helenanuclear propulsion is part, says the https://twitter.com/Southcom/status/1801286834242326877 in a message posted on his X account, of a “routine port visit” while “carrying out its global mission of maritime security and national defense.”
Although the ship arrives just one day after four Russian warships docked in the port of Havana, the Navy assures that “the location and transit of the ship were previously planned.”
United States, indicated this WednesdayThe Miami Herald, followed closely, with several warships and aircraft, the arrival of the Russian ships, which passed less than 30 miles off the coast of Florida on Tuesday. The US deployment includes three guided missile destroyers (the USS Truxtun, he USS Donald Cook and the USS Delbert D. Black), as well as a coast guard, the Stone, and a Boeing P-8 maritime patrol aircraft.
“We will always monitor any foreign vessel that operates near our waters”
Although US authorities have insisted that the presence of Russian ships in Cuban waters “does not pose a threat,” they also clarified: “We will always monitor any foreign vessel that operates near our waters.”
After several days insisting that the Russian naval detachment came in peace, Sputnik interviewed a specialist who thinks otherwise: “I think we can see this [el envío de la flotilla a Cuba] as a direct Russian response to the US announcement about the so-called Freedom of navigation exercise [Libertad de navegación]”, international relations and security expert Mark Sleboda, a regular defender of Putin’s policy, told the official agency. The arrival of Russian ships to Cuba is “a reminder to the United States that both [países] “They can play this game,” he added.
On the other hand, the Russian Ministry of Defense in its Telegram channel uses a much more diplomatic tone and limits itself to saying that the entry into Havana of the frigate Gorshkov It represents the end of a “high-precision missile exercise” carried out in the Atlantic. The visit to the Island is “informal” and is part of Russia Day, which was celebrated yesterday, June 12, they added.
The “exercises” that the Russians carried out in the Atlantic come less than two weeks after President Joe Biden authorized Ukraine to use weapons provided by the United States to attack inside Russia with the aim of protecting Kharkiv, the second largest city. great of Ukraine.
