A flotilla of Russian Navy which features a fashionable frigate and a nuclear-powered submarine arrived this Wednesday morning at Havana inside a scheduled go to that has generated nice expectation because of its geopolitical significance.
The fleet oil tanker Pashinmain the flotilla, started at 7:47 a.m. native time (11:47 GMT) to cross via the slender entrance to the bay of the Cuban capital, in entrance of Previous Havana, below a light-weight rain and with Cuban technical help.
In response to the Cuban Authorities, this logistics ship is accompanied by the frigate Gorshkov, the nuclear-powered submarine Kazan and the rescue tug. Nikolai Chikerwho plan to stopover in Havana till June 17.
The US Division of Protection, which claimed to be following the actions of the flotilla for days, instructed EFE that it doesn’t understand this Russian motion as a risk.
Nevertheless, a number of American warships have been mobilized in the previous few hours to carefully comply with the trajectory of the Russian flotilla, when the ships have been closest to the coast of Florida (southeastern US).
The US Division of Protection additionally added that they count on the detachment to additionally cease at Venezuelan ports and perform maritime and air maneuvers throughout the northern summer season in worldwide waters of the Caribbean Sea.
These sources confirmed no concern concerning the Russian navy 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 risk»they said.
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 workouts 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 in recent times and within the train that educated 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 grew to become operational in 2021.
He Ministry of the Cuban Armed Forces (Minfar) He outlined it as a protocol go to. He said in a press release that it is a “historic apply” between international locations with “relations of friendship and collaboration.” The Russian embassy in Havana spoke of “another instance of Russian-Cuban friendship.”
The Minfar said, anticipating doubts, that “not one of the ships are carrying nuclear weapons” and harassed that the dimensions “doesn’t signify a risk 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 have 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 now we have to return to 2013.
Lately, Cuba and Russia have deepened their historic relations within the political, navy 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. EFE (I)
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