(17 Jun 2024)
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Havana, Cuba – 17 June 2024
1. Various of military and tugs undocking submarine
2. Various of departure from bay with UPSOUND of horns
3. People watching and waving goodbye to the ships
4. Various of Russian submarine and tugboat leaving the bay, city in the background
5. Russian warship with people on the Malecon
6. Dorelys Montalvo watching the departure of the Russian vessels
7. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Dorelys Montalvo, artist:
“We are here with help and protection for our country, (let them know) that we also have defense in the brother country of Russia.”
8. Various of Russian warship leaving the bay
9. Nelson Ferro watching
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Nelson Ferro, fisherman:
“The United States worries about everything it doesn’t have to worry about. You should worry about what is happening in your country and not in other neighbour countries.”
11. Various of Russian vessels leaving the bay
STORYLINE:
Russian nuclear-powered submarine Kazan left the bay of Havana on Monday followed by the Frigate Admiral Gorshkov ahead of expected military exercises in the Caribbean.
The fleet, made up of a frigate, a nuclear-powered submarine, an oil tanker and a rescue tug, crossed into Havana Bay on the 12th of June after drills in the Atlantic Ocean.
The next destination of the Russian ships is still unknown.
U.S. officials expect the Russian ships to remain in the region through the summer and possibly also stop in Venezuela.
Russia is a longtime ally of Venezuela and Cuba, and its warships and aircraft have periodically made forays into the Caribbean.
Although the fleet includes a nuclear-powered submarine, a senior U.S. administration official told The Associated Press that the intelligence community has determined no vessel is carrying nuclear weapons.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to provide details that had not been announced publicly, said Russia’s deployments “pose no direct threat to the United States.”
Russian ships have occasionally docked in Havana since 2008, when a group of Russian vessels entered Cuban waters in what state media described as the first such visit in almost two decades.
AP Video by Osvaldo Angulo, Ariel Fernandez and Milexsy Duran.
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