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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