SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- The Baltic Fleetof the Russian Navy, arrived in Havana this Saturday, July 27, amid a strong police presence in the vicinity of the Sierra Maestra cruise terminal.
In the morning hours they robbed the training ship Smolny, the patrol vessel Neustrahimiy and the deep-sea oil tanker Yelnya, it was confirmed CubaNet.
The crew members were received by the captain of the fleet, Juan Alberto Vázquez Rodríguez, head of the Navigation and Naval Operations Department of the Revolutionary Navy, and Ana V. Kosenkova, chargé d’affaires of the Russian Embassy in Cuba.
The “working” visit will last until July 30, MINFAR said in a statement. note where the arrival was announced. “During their stay in the Caribbean nation, the Russian sailors will carry out a program of activities that includes courtesy visits to the head of the Revolutionary Navy and the governor of the capital, as well as touring places of historical and cultural interest.”
It is a practice “historical relationship of the Cuban revolutionary government with nations with which it maintains friendship and collaboration,” said the Cuban military, who are trying to justify the arrival of the Russian warships on the eve of the elections in Venezuela.
As an “attraction”, they announced that the Cubans You can visit the training ship Smolny on Sunday, July 28, from 12:00 to 4:00 p.m. (local time) and on Monday, from 12:00 to 6:00 p.m.
The arrival comes just a month and a half after the controversial arrival of the frigate Gorshkov, the nuclear-powered submarine Kazan, the fleet’s oil tanker Pashin and the rescue tug Nikolai Chiker.
A permanent base
A Russian military expert warned This Thursday, July 25, the Moscow regime is laying the groundwork for the permanent deployment of its naval and land forces in Cuba.
“The base of the Russian armed forces, both land and naval, is already being recreated in Cuba. If dry cargo ships are used, it is possible that missiles will arrive there again. [nucleares]as it happened in 1962,” Alexander Sharkovsky, a Kremlin military expert, told the news agency Absatz.
He madeas he justified, is because the United States “intends to place its medium-range missiles on German territory“.
“This means that our missiles must end up somewhere close to the United States. This is a very important strategic base for the security of the Russian Federation“, he emphasized.
Although Sharkovsky noted that Russia is not yet pushing ahead with the process of sending a large number of warships to Cuba, the establishment of the Russian Navy will become a reality if the White House agrees to locate its missile systems in European countries.
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