The nuclear submarine of the Russian Navy arrives in Havana

AREQUIPA, Peru – The nuclear-powered submarine of the Russian Navy arrived this Wednesday morning in Havana as announced by the Ministry of the Armed Forces (MINFAR) of the Cuban regime. The ship will be accompanied by three other ships during its stay on the Island, which will last for five days, until Monday the 17th.

During the journey towards Cuba, the Russian flotilla practiced the use of high-precision weapons in the Atlantic Ocean, Russian state media reported. TASSquoted by CNN.

According to the report, the crew of the frigate and the nuclear submarine practiced the use of high-precision weapons through computer simulation against naval targets supposedly located at a distance of more than 600 kilometers.

The Russian flotilla that arrives in the Cuban capital is made up of the frigate Gorshkov, the nuclear-powered submarine Kazan, the fleet oil tanker Pashin and the rescue tug Nikolai Chiker.

The MINFAR specified that “none of the ships are carrying nuclear weapons” and indicated that “this visit corresponds to the historical friendly relations between Cuba and the Russian Federation and strictly complies with the international regulations of which Cuba is a State. Part”.

In contrast, the Cuba Siglo 21 ideas laboratory warned that, according to its own sources, the Havana regime had requested Vladimir Putin for a Russian nuclear military presence on the Island this summer.

The action, the think tank warned, aims to send the message to the people of the Island that the United States will not dare to come to their aid “if Cuban blood is spilled in the streets of cities and towns.”

“The Russian ships will be there to make possible an unpunished Tiananmen in Cuba,” in reference to the massacre that occurred in 1989 in Beijing, China, when the communist authorities took the Army out into the streets of the country and entered the central Tiananmen Square, where there were demonstrators who had been protesting for around seven weeks and who demanded, among other things, greater freedom, transparency, democracy and the end of corruption.

“Courtesy of Putin, the deployment of national repressive forces willing to kill will be carried out in the presence of a foreign and interfering military force, represented – for now – by three ships and a nuclear submarine. Their presence only serves to give a pat on the back to Castro and Maduro (the Venezuelan elections are on July 28),” argued Cuba Siglo 21.

Also last Thursday, a State Department spokesperson cited by Martí News He specified that “Russia’s deployments are part of routine naval activity” and “do not represent a direct threat to the United States.”

Other unnamed officials told reporters that the Biden administration does not view the deployment with alarm since Russia had sent ships to the Western Hemisphere annually from 2013 to 2020.

For his part, the head of the BBC’s Russian service, Famil Ismailov, told the British media that beyond the escalation of tension between Washington and the Kremlin, the arrival of the fleet to Cuba is a “propaganda maneuver.” .

According to Ismailov, it is interesting that Russia clarified that there are no nuclear weapons in its flotilla, which is a message of disinterest towards an arms escalation.

“It’s not a coincidence. It is a clear propaganda move by Russia to make something clear: ‘We support you (Cuba) in the ‘backyard’ of the United States,’” Ismailov emphasizes.

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