High representative of the Russian Duma calls for installing nuclear weapons in Cuba

Alexei Zhuravlev, first deputy chairman of the Defense Committee of the Russian State Duma, said his country should place nuclear weapons in Cuba, as well as in Nicaragua and Venezuela.

“As for our missiles closest to the United States, I, for example, have long been a supporter of supplying launchers and submarines to our friends Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua,” Zhuravlev said.

In statements collected by the mediaNews.ru, The parliamentary leader of the Putin regime reacted to the revelation ofThe Telegraph, which ensures Washington's probable return of its nuclear weapons to the United Kingdom.

This situation, Zhuravlev acknowledges, will not change the political-military situation, since London has its own arsenal of nuclear weapons.

“Weapon systems are advancing rapidly and are now very different from those the USSR had during the Cuban missile crisis, so Russian hypersonic missiles from our territory will reach the United States faster than subsonic missiles from the most vulnerable in the United States,” explained the deputy.

It is not the first time that the placement of missiles in Cuba has crossed the minds of Russian leaders.

In 2022, Russian Vice Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov warned thatdid not rule out a Russian military deployment in Cuba and Venezuelaif it increased tensions with the United States at the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine.

The Cuban government has always remained silent about the statements of its Russian allies in this regard.