Quote from: electronicash on June 09, 2024, 05:05:07 PM

there has been news recently that Russia's fleet is going to Cuba by the way, i have no idea why Putin will be going there but this is definitely going to make things worse. he must have been fed up that US missiles were hitting Russia's territory.

According to statements from the Cuban Foreign Ministry, a Russian naval group consisting of three ships and a nuclear submarine will visit the port of Havana from June 12 to 17. It includes the frigate "Admiral Gorshkov", the nuclear submarine "Kazan", the supply ship "Akademik Pashin" and the tugboat "Nikolai Tsiker". The Cuban Foreign Ministry clarified that visits by naval units from other countries are a historical practice between states with which Cuba maintains “relationships of friendship and cooperation.”

Washington does not consider this Russian move, which involves the presence of a relatively small number of ships, threatening, but the US Navy will monitor the exercises.

It should also be added that Russia removed all its valuable ships from the occupied Crimean peninsula and hid them from Ukrainian surface drones in the port of Novorossiysk. When the Ukrainian drones got there, they transferred some of them to the Sea of Azov, which has either a Russian coast or an occupied one. But this doesn’t save them either.
On June 8, Ukrainian kamikaze drones attacked and damaged the Russian tugboat “Engineer L.G. Smirnov” and the barge “Section-179” in the Sea of Azov.
On June 9, in the waters of the Azov Sea near the port of Yeisk, surface drones struck a Russian Ropukha-class landing ship, which had previously been moved from the Black Sea to the Azov Sea. He was allegedly under surveillance for a long time in Kyiv, and the day before he was attacked by surface drones when he was in the port of Yeisk. If the information is correct, then this landing ship became the fifth of seven, which in the third year of the war were either completely destroyed or severely damaged by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.