The Russian nuclear submarineKazan” left the port of To Havanawhere it remained anchored for five days in full view of the residents of Havana, while a North American nuclear submersible arrived at the Havana naval base on Thursday. Guantanamo.
Just before 10 a.m. local time, the large black shell of “Kazan” crossed the mouth of the bay from the Havana sail towards the open sea, followed half an hour later by the frigate “Admiral Gorshkov“while the tanker”Pashin“I was making exit maneuvers.
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The Russian flotilla, which also includes the rescue tug “Nikolay Chiker”, arrived Wednesday in the Cuban capital amid great expectations from the inhabitants, who approached the port to see with their own eyes a submarine nuclear.
The unusual deployment Russian just 150 kilometers off the coast of Florida, it takes place amid growing tensions due to the war in Ukraine, a country that counts on Western support in its fight against a Russian invasion.
The Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (minfar) indicated last week, before their arrival, that these ships do not carry nuclear weapons and do not represent a “threat to the region”.
His Russian counterpart said Wednesday, in a statement, that the day before his arrival at the port of La Havanathe flotilla had made “an exercise in the use of high-precision missile weapons.”
President Miguel Díaz-Canel visited the roof of the submarine and the Russian frigate.
“Impressive and pleasant afternoon, even with persistent rain. Welcome friends of #Russia,” he said on his X account, a message accompanied by a photo of him on the frigate.
On Thursday the submarine “fast attack”USS Helena“came to the Bay in Guantanamo, Cuba“as part of a routine port visit,” the Pentagon said.
A visit that was informed in advance to the Cuban government, according to the vice minister of Foreign Affairs in a statement. Carlos Fernández de Cossio.
“But obviously we don’t like their presence in our territory and passage through our waters” The submarine of that nature that belongs to a country with “an official policy and practice that is hostile to Cuba”he said Fernández de Cossio.
The army of U.S assured that he closely monitors the presence of Russian ships, but that They do not pose a direct threat.
Furthermore, the Canadian ship “Margaret Brooke” arrived on Friday at Cuba and is scheduled to leave the island this Monday.
During the Cold War, the deployment of Soviet nuclear missiles on the island triggered the missile crisis in Cuba 1962, when washington and Moscow were about to go to war.
Source: Elcomercio
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