According to a press release by the Cuban foreign ministry, a Russian nuclear submarine, frigate, and two support ships will pay a port call in Havana between June 12 and June 17. The Cubans cited “historically friendly relations” between Cuba and Russia and assured us that the Russian ships don’t carry nuclear weapons, and they do not “represent a threat to the region.”
This deployment is part of a planned exercise in the Caribbean involving Cuba and Venezuela. It is a prelude to a series of exercises this autumn that allegedly will span the globe. More Russian ships and aircraft are expected to arrive in the Caribbean over the summer.
The ships involved are the Project 22350 Admiral Gorshkov guided missile frigate. the Kazan, a Project 885 Yasen-class guided missile submarine, a fleet oiler, and, ominously, the salvage tug “Nikolai Chiker.”
The Russian exercise is…
