Moscow revives gunboat diplomacy with nuclear submarine visit to Cuba

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Russia's top-of-the-line nuclear submarine Kazan is about to dock in the port of Havana together with the Korshakov missile launcher frigate. The Kremlin's hazardous move in the Caribbean responds to the alleged US meddling in Eastern Europe.

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00:00A Russian nuclear submarine named Kazan has sailed into a port in Cuba's capital Havana

00:07together with the Admiral Gorshkov missile frigate.

00:13The fleet, which also includes two support vessels, an oil tanker and a tug, has arrived

00:18in advance of planned military exercises in the Caribbean.

00:23According to the commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy, the ships have already conducted

00:28some exercises in the Atlantic Ocean on the way to Cuba.

00:33These include the use of high-precision missile weapons on targets using a computer-based

00:38maritime simulation.

00:42The vessels are being closely watched by the US Navy as the move is believed to be a Russian

00:47response to the authorisation of the use of US weapons by Ukraine to strike inside Russia.

00:55Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also held talks with his Cuban counterpart Bruno

01:00Rodriguez Perilla, who called on Western countries and NATO to stop escalating the Ukrainian

01:05crisis and instead to find a diplomatic solution.

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