Liam Conner
Three Russian ships and a nuclear-powered submarine are expected to arrive in Cuba this week, before military exercises in the Caribbean, officials said. Although the exercises are not considered a threat to the US, American ships have been sent to follow the Russians, US officials told CBS News.
The Russian warships are expected to arrive in Havana on Wednesday and remain until next Monday, the Foreign Ministry said. said in a statement. A U.S. official told CBS News national security correspondent David Martin that the U.S. intelligence community has assessed that the group’s submarine is nuclear-powered but does not carry nuclear weapons.
“We have no indication and no expectation that nuclear weapons will be in play here in these exercises or aboard these vessels,” White House national security spokesman John Kirby told CBS Senior White House Correspondent and Political Correspondent News, Ed O’Keefe, last week.
What Russian ships arrive in Cuba?
According to Itamaraty, the three Russian ships are a frigate, a tanker and a rescue tug. The three ships and the submarine were crossing the Atlantic separately, the U.S. official told Martin.
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Two American destroyers and two ships towing sonar equipment behind them are following the submarine, the U.S. official told Martin. Another destroyer and a US Coast Guard boat are following the three Russian ships.
The ships’ arrival in Havana – which Cuba’s Foreign Ministry said is expected to include the fanfare of a Russian ship firing 21 salvos in salute to Cuba – comes before Russia carries out air and naval exercises in the Caribbean in the coming weeks. another US official told Martin.
The exercises, which will include long-range bombers, will be the first simultaneous air and naval maneuvers Russia has carried out in the Caribbean since 2019, the US official said. Exercises will be held throughout the summer, culminating in a worldwide naval exercise in the fall.
“Clearly this is them signaling their displeasure with what are we doing for Ukraine,” Kirby told O’Keefe. “So let’s watch, let’s monitor, it’s not unexpected. …But we do not anticipate, we do not expect that there will be any imminent threat or any threat, frankly, to American national security in the region, in the Caribbean region, or anywhere else.”
The U.S. official told Martin that the ships may also visit Venezuela.
What was the Cuban missile crisis?
Events in the Caribbean are different from the Cuban missile crisis that occurred more than 60 years ago. The 1962 crisis erupted after the US discovered launch sites in Cuba for Soviet nuclear ballistic missiles.
Over the course of 13 days, the crisis brought the Soviet Union and the United States dangerously close to nuclear war. A potential conflict was averted when the Kennedy administration reached an agreement with the Kremlin to remove missiles from Cuba.
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