A Russian frigate and submarine conducted missile drills in the Atlantic en route to Cuba
The Russia n nuclear-powered submarine Kazan, part of a Russia n naval detachment visiting Cuba , arriving at Havana's harbour. Photograph: Adalberto Roque/AFP via Getty Imagessaid posed no threat but which was widely seen as a Russia n show of force as tensions rise over the
The frigate and submarine had conducted missile drills in the Atlantic en route to the island, Russia’s defence ministry said the previous day.Janan Ganesh: Macron’s election call is an act of cool logic “We have been monitoring the ships’ paths closely,” a US official told Reuters on condition of anonymity late on Tuesday. “At no point have the ships or submarine posed a direct threat to the United States.”
The stopover also coincides with Cuba’s worst social and economic crisis in decades, with shortages of everything from food, medicine and fuel and growing discontent on the streets. “This...has echoes of the Cold War, but unlike the first Cold War the Cubans are drawn to Moscow not by ideological affinity but by economic necessity,” Mr Leogrande said.
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