Shortly before ten in the morning, when the opening to the public from the russian ship Perekopanchored in Havana from this tuesdaythe port was deserted.
The situation contrasted with other foreign training ships that have been in Cuba, such as the Spanish Juan Sebastian Elcano or the mexican cuauhtémocwhich aroused long lines at the foot of the stairs.
Instead, this time, a policeman was informing the few onlookers who approached: “The visit is suspended.” To those who inquired why or when it could be done, he replied: “I don’t know the reason, it’s suspended, it’s the only order we have.”
The day before, when the boat docked, the official press reported that the population could visit it this Wednesday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Thursday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The ship will be in Havana until Friday.
The Russian Embassy in the capital informed by telephone that the visits begin tomorrow, Thursday, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
His arrival is described this Wednesday in the Russian media as “evidence of the close ties” between Havana and Moscow
His arrival is described this Wednesday in the Russian media as “evidence of the close ties” between Havana and Moscow. “Although this is the first visit of the Perekop to the largest of the Antilles, from the ties with the extinct Soviet Union the visit of the Eurasian country’s navy to Cuba is ‘normal’,” he told the news agency Sputnik Cuban official Mario Antonio Padilla Torres, academic at the Center for International Policy Research.
The Russian ship dropped anchor this Tuesday morning without being received by any senior official, just at the time the Cuban Foreign Ministry issued an official statement on the passage through the US naval base in Guantanamo, from July 5 to 8, from a nuclear-powered submarine as part of the US “provocative escalation.”
“The presence there of a nuclear submarine at this time forces us to question what is the military reason for the event in this peaceful region of the world, against what objective it is directed and what strategic purpose it pursues,” argued the text that, however, abstained. to allude to the arrival, days later, of a military ship with a capacity for 500 Russian navy soldiers that arrived on the Island on the second anniversary of the massive protests of July 11, 2021.
Hours later, the United States responded to Cuba that it has the right to move assets to its military base in Guantanamo.
“As the Pentagon has already said, we will continue to fly, navigate and move military assets where international law allows us,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said at a press conference on Tuesday.
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