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Russian Naval Force Ship Shows Up in Cuba for Three-Day Visit

.A Russian navy ship arrived in Cuba on Sunday for a three-day stay, six full weeks after Moscow sent a submarine and also other marine crafts to check out the communist condition off Florida's shore.The Smolny training ship was greeted along with salvos from Cuban weapons just before it anchored in Havana's wharf, where residents as well as vacationers collected to look.Russia's consulate in Cuba stated the ship, alonged with pair of others, is "component of the Baltic Squadron group that is creating a pleasant visit to the Cuban initial."." One more example of the close associations between our folks," the consular office created on X, formerly Twitter.In mid-June, the Russian nuclear-powered submersible Kazan-- which Cuba claimed was actually not carrying atomic weapons-- docked in Havana for five days.The unusual deployment therefore near US area happened surrounded by major strains over the battle in Ukraine, where the Western-backed authorities is actually battling a Russian intrusion.The United States sent out a fast-attack submarine to its own Guantanamo Bay core in Cuba a time after the Russian submarine showed up.Throughout the Cold War, Cuba was actually a significant client condition for the Soviet Union. The implementation of Soviet atomic projectile web sites on the isle set off the Cuban Rocket Crisis of 1962 when Washington as well as Moscow resembled war.