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The Kazan and Admiral Gorshkov, which is one of Russia’s most modern warships, could be seen just off Havana, which is about 90 miles from the southern coast of Florida.
The tanker Pashin and the tug entered the harbor early morning, an AFP reporter said. Cuba’s communist government announced that Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez was meeting his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Wednesday, as the two former Cold War allies aim to strengthen their ties.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel met with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Red Square outside the Kremlin.
Cuba was an important client state for the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The deployment of Soviet nuclear missile sites on the island triggered the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 when Washington and Moscow came close to war.
Relations between Russia and Cuba have become closer since a 2022 meeting between Diaz-Canel and Putin.
Source: AFP