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Russia nuclear-powered submarine to visit Cuba amid rising tensions with US

Russia’s Kazan nuclear-powered submarine takes part in a naval parade in Kola Bay, Russia, 25 July 2021.
Russia’s Kazan nuclear-powered submarine takes part in a naval parade in Kola Bay, Russia, 25 July 2021. Photograph: Lev Fedoseyev/TASS

A Russian nuclear-powered submarine – which will not be carrying nuclear weapons – will visit Havana next week, Cuba’s communist authorities have announced, amid rising tensions with the US over the war in Ukraine.

The nuclear submarine Kazan and three other Russian naval vessels, including the missile frigate Admiral Gorshkov, an oil tanker and a salvage tug, will dock in the Cuban capital from 12-17 June, Cuba’s ministry of the revolutionary armed forces said in a statement.

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