US submarine arrives at Guantánamo during stay in Cuba of a Russian flotilla
Friday, June 14, 2024 – 07:44 UTC
Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh insisted that the Russian mission “does not represent a threat to the United States”
US authorities have ruled out that the presence of the nuclear submarine USS Helena at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba has anything to do with the presence of a Russian flotilla in Havana.
“The fast attack submarine USS Helena is in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as part of a routine port visit while transiting the geographic area of responsibility of the United States Southern Command while carrying out its global maritime security mission and national defense,” it was explained through a statement.
Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh insisted that the Russian mission “posed no threat to the United States.”
“The United States Second Fleet, Fourth Fleet, Coast Guard Atlantic Area and Joint Task Force Atlantic Canada are conducting routine operations throughout the Atlantic. But we will continue to monitor what is happening in the region,” he added.
A Russian convoy that includes the Admiral Gorshkov frigate with Tsirkons hypersonic missiles; The nuclear-powered submarine Kazan and other support vessels arrived in Cuba on June 12 for joint activities with the local regime. Cuban sources insisted that none of the Russian ships carried nuclear weapons.
Tensions between the United States and Russia are believed to be rising following the 10-year deal signed Thursday between President Joseph Biden and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the G7 Summit in Italy for continued arms supplies. Therefore, according to defense analysts, the presence of Russian forces just 90 miles off the Florida coast should not be taken lightly.
In fact, the episode revived the missile crisis of 1962, when the Cold War seemed about to move from its psychological phase to the feared belligerent phase that never arrived.
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