.A Russian navy ship arrived in Cuba on Sunday for a three-day vacation, 6 weeks after Moscow sent a sub and also other marine vessels to see the communist state off Florida's coastline.The Smolny instruction ship was actually welcomed with salvos from Cuban artillery before it fastened in Havana's harbor, where homeowners as well as tourists gathered to have a look.Russia's embassy in Cuba claimed the ship, accompanied by 2 others, is "portion of the Baltic Squadron group that is creating a pleasant browse through to the Cuban capital."." One more example of the near relations in between our people," the embassy composed on X, in the past Twitter.In mid-June, the Russian nuclear-powered underwater craft Kazan-- which Cuba said was actually certainly not holding nuclear weapons-- anchored in Havana for five days.The uncommon implementation therefore near to US area happened amid significant stress over the war in Ukraine, where the Western-backed federal government is actually dealing with a Russian attack.The USA sent a fast-attack sub to its Guantanamo Gulf core in Cuba a time after the Russian sub arrived.Throughout the Cold War, Cuba was actually an essential customer state for the Soviet Union. The release of Soviet atomic missile internet sites on the island set off the Cuban Rocket Situation of 1962 when Washington as well as Moscow came close to war.