Díaz-Canel visits the frigate and the Russian submarine docked in Havana Bay.

The Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel visited on Saturday the Russian frigate and submarine docked since June 12th in the Bay of Havana.

"Today we toured the interior of the frigate Admiral Gorshkov and the deck of the submarine Kazan, vessels of the Russian Navy, which are making an official visit to the port of Havana," said Díaz-Canel on his Twitter account.

"Impressive and pleasant afternoon, even under the persistent rain. Welcome, friends from Russia," he added.

The frigate and the submarine are part of a Russian war fleet - which also includes the salvage tug Nikolai Chiker (SB-131) and the fleet oil tanker Pashin - that arrived on an official visit to Cuba, where they will stay until June 17.

The event generated various reactions at an international level, in a scenario marked by the war in Ukraine, which has reignited tensions between Russia and the United States.

Moscow stated that there is no reason for any country, including the United States, to be concerned about the presence of Russian warships in Cuba and assured that such exercises are common practice.

In the same vein, the United States Department of Defense stated that the Russian naval detachment in Havana does not pose a direct threat to the United States.

However, the White House deployed several warships (two destroyers and a Coast Guard vessel) and an underwater reconnaissance aircraft to track the course of the Russian flotilla before its arrival in the Cuban capital.

Jesús Daniel Romero, a retired lieutenant commander from the United States Navy Intelligence, described Russia's naval deployment just 90 miles off the American coast as "alarming."

The day after arriving, on June 13, the United States Southern Command reported the arrival of the nuclear submarine USS Helena at Guantanamo Bay, in a move it described as a "routine port visit."

In response, the Cuban government stated that it does not like the presence on national territory of a "medium of that nature" belonging to a "hostile" power, that also has not been invited, although it acknowledged that it was informed in advance of the arrival of the US nuclear submarine in the area of Guantánamo Naval Base.