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The Independent UK
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Martha McHardy

Ex-spy says US should be concerned by Russian ships visiting Cuba as Kremlin insists ‘nothing to worry about’

Russian Defense Ministry Press Service

An ex-spy has warned that the US should be concerned by Russian ships visiting Cuba, but the Kremlin has insisted that there is nothing to worry about.

Former KGB spy Jack Barsky, who spent a decade spying for the Soviet Union in the US before he was discovered by the FBI, told NewsNation that the US should be “worried” after Russia sent three warships and a nuclear-powered submarine into Cuban waters – just 90 miles from Florida – on Tuesday for routine military exercises.

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