After his stay in the bay of Havanathe Russian frigate Admiral Gorshkov carried out various maneuvers in the Atlantic Ocean for the purpose of detecting submarines, reported a statement from the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Disseminated through the social network Telegram and taken by the agency Reuters, The document details that the exercise was to crew a reconnaissance helicopter to carry out “search and tracking tactics” more than 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the ship.
The aircraft made five landings on the deck of the frigate, the same one that landed in the port of the Cuban capital on June 12, along with the nuclear-powered submarine Kazán, after conduct a “high-precision missile weapons” exercise in the Atlantic.
Since the beginning of the month, the naval squadron of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy has been practicing the use of high-precision missiles through computer simulation and training to repel air attacks, maneuvers that have been monitored by the United States, as was near the coast of Miami, Florida.
Shrouded in a cloud of controversy, the stay of the Russian Navy flotilla in Cuba occurred for five days, and was made up of the oil tanker Pashin, the rescue tug Nikolai Chiker (SB-131) and the frigate Almirante Gorshkov .
At that time, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs pointed out that The visit was carried out in line with “the historical friendly relations between Cuba and the Russian Federation.”and that it complied “strictly with the international regulations to which Cuba is a State party.”
Likewise, he pointed out the lack of nuclear weapons on ships and that its stopover in the country posed no threat to the regionalthough the presence induced the deployment of several warships and an underwater reconnaissance plane to track the course of the flotilla, by the United States government.
