Cuba welcomes Russian warships carrying missiles, calls visit ‘standard practice’

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Cuba welcomes Russian warships carrying missiles, calls visit ‘standard practice’
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The four Russian vessels sailed to Cuba on Wednesday after conducting 'high-precision missile weapons' training in the Atlantic Ocean, Russia's defense ministry said Wednesday.

said posed no threat but which was widely seen as a Russia n show of force as tensions rise over the Ukraine war.

Cuba said last week that the visit was standard practice by naval vessels from countries friendly to Havana. The communist-run government’s foreign ministry said the fleet carried no nuclear weapons, something echoed by U.S. officials. The stopover 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,” Leogrande said.

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