Havana, June 12 (EFE).- A flotilla of the Russian Navy that features a trendy frigate and a nuclear-powered submarine arrived in Havana this Wednesday morning as a part of a scheduled go to that has generated nice expectations. due to its geopolitical significance.
The oil tanker of the Pashin fleet, main the flotilla, started at 7:47 a.m. native time (11:47 GMT) to go via the slender entrance to the bay of the Cuban capital, in entrance of Previous Havana, below a lightweight rain and with technical help Cuban.
In accordance with the Cuban Authorities, this logistics ship is accompanied by the frigate Gorshkov, the nuclear-powered submarine Kazan and the rescue tug Nikolai Chiker, that are scheduled to cease in Havana till June 17.
The US Division of Protection, which claimed to be following the actions of the flotilla for days, informed EFE that it doesn’t understand this Russian motion as a menace.
Nonetheless, a number of American warships had been mobilized in the previous few hours to intently comply with the trajectory of the Russian flotilla, when the ships had been closest to the coast of Florida (southeastern US).
The US Division of Protection additionally added that they anticipate the detachment to additionally cease at Venezuelan ports and perform maritime and air maneuvers in the course of the northern summer time in worldwide waters of the Caribbean Sea.
These sources confirmed no concern in regards to the Russian army presence close to the US. “Russia’s deployments are a part of routine naval exercise and don’t concern us, as they don’t signify a direct menace,” they acknowledged.
The Russian Ministry of Protection reported this Tuesday that the flotilla took benefit of its motion via worldwide waters of the Atlantic to hold out workout routines that included the digital launch of “high-precision” missiles.
The Gorshkov frigate, one of many newest era of Russian frigates, started working in 2018 and has participated in multinational maneuvers lately and within the train that skilled the launch of Tsirkon hypersonic missiles from the ocean in 2023.
The Kazan is a contemporary nuclear-powered submarine able to firing cruise missiles that turned operational in 2021.
The Ministry of the Cuban Armed Forces (Minfar) outlined it as a protocol go to. He acknowledged in an announcement that this can be a “historic apply” between international locations with “relations of friendship and collaboration.” The Russian embassy in Havana spoke of “yet another instance of Russian-Cuban friendship.”
The Minfar acknowledged, anticipating doubts, that “not one of the ships are carrying nuclear weapons” and burdened that the dimensions “doesn’t signify a menace to the area.”
The motion was introduced shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin introduced that he was prepared to take “uneven measures” after studying that a number of Western international locations had been going to permit Ukraine to make use of the weapons they gave it to assault Russia in its territory. territory.
Lately there have been two visits by Russian flotillas, however neither with a nuclear submarine. The final one passed off in June 2019, which was additionally headed by Gorshkov. For the earlier one we have now to return to 2013.
Lately, Cuba and Russia have deepened their historic relations within the political, army and financial spheres. Cubans beset primarily by the intense disaster they’re struggling; the Russians to consolidate their meager community of allies and the geostrategic worth of the island.
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2024-06-14 06:43:16