American naval vessels and aircraft are following the passage off the eastern coast of Florida Russian warships headed for Cuba. This is what Newsweek reports, citing open-source intelligence data analysts who show that today a Coast Guard vessel, the USSTruxtun and USS Donald Cook destroyers and a Canadian Navy frigate are sailing along the coast of Florida, towards the south, presumably following Russian ships headed to Cuba. While the Navy aircraft P-8A, Poseidon, and the Canadian CP-140 Aurora are conducting reconnaissance operations.
Also on the island is a Russian nuclear submarine
The Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Alexander Moiseev, today confirmed that a unit composed of several Russian Navy ships will arrive in Cuba tomorrow to lead exercises in the field of international cooperation. “On June 12, a detachment of warships from the Northern Fleet will arrive in Cuba,” he said, stressing that this is “public information” and that the mission “falls within the framework of international cooperation between Russia and Cuba.” , Moiseev said, explaining that the flagship of this detachment is a frigate with modern weapons on board and that a nuclear submarine will also arrive in Cuba.
Cuban Foreign Ministry: “Exercises are not a threat”
Last Thursday American sources told CBS that they would take place Russian naval and air exercises off the Caribbean, stopping in Cuba. On the same day, the Cuban Foreign Ministry confirmed that from 12 to 17 June the frigate Admiral Gorshkov, two support ships and the submarine Kazan of the Russian Navy they would dock in Havana harbor for a view that “it does not pose a threat” for the Caribbean region.
The exercises, according to Moscow, would be a reaction to the West’s actions in Ukraine, as Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu stated in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
“Our exercises are an adequate response to the West’s support for the terrorist regime in Kiev – he explained – to the active participation of NATO troops in the hostilities in Ukraine and to the effective permission for Kiev to launch missile attacks against Russian civilian targets”.
The Secretary of the Security Council added that the world is reacting with moderation to the ongoing exercises. According to him, more and more countries understand that the degradation in the sphere of international security was caused by the actions of the United States, which undermines arms control. Today the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the start of the second phase of the exercise of non-strategic nuclear forces.
