OAN’s Brooke Mallory
12:35 PM – Monday, June 10, 2024
As part of its “historically friendly relations,” a number of Russian naval ships, including a nuclear-powered submarine, will visit Cuba this week, the country’s administration announced last week.
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According to the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, in a statement released by the Foreign Ministry, the Russian “frigate Gorshkov, the nuclear-powered submarine Kazan, the fleet oil tanker Pashin, and the rescue tug Nikolai Chiker” will visit the port of Havana between June 12th and June 17th.
Cuba maintains that the ships’ visit does not pose a threat to the area and that none of them are carrying nuclear weapons.
“Visits by naval units from other countries are a historical practice of the revolutionary government with nations…