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Russian Navy Ship Gets There in Cuba for Three-Day Visit

.A Russian naval force ship got here in Cuba on Saturday for a three-day break, six full weeks after Moscow sent a sub and also various other naval crafts to check out the communist condition off Florida's coast.The Smolny training ship was welcomed with barrages from Cuban weapons prior to it anchored in Havana's wharf, where individuals and tourists gathered to take a look.Russia's embassy in Cuba mentioned the ship, accompanied by two others, is actually "aspect of the Baltic Fleet group that is creating a friendly browse through to the Cuban center."." One more example of the close associations between our folks," the consular office wrote on X, formerly Twitter.In mid-June, the Russian nuclear-powered submarine Kazan-- which Cuba pointed out was certainly not lugging atomic items-- anchored in Havana for 5 days.The uncommon deployment therefore near to United States area came amid major strains over the war in Ukraine, where the Western-backed federal government is actually dealing with a Russian attack.The USA sent out a fast-attack submarine to its own Guantanamo Gulf base in Cuba a day after the Russian submarine got there.During the Cold War, Cuba was actually a significant customer state for the Soviet Union. The deployment of Soviet atomic rocket websites on the isle triggered the Cuban Rocket Dilemma of 1962 when Washington and Moscow came close to war.