Deputy Director of the Center for European and International Studies at the National Research University Higher School of Economics and Valdai Club expert Dmitry With an assessment of the likelihood of Russian weapons hitting Venezuela and Cuba. The specialist noted in an interview with Lenta.ru that such reports in the media are nonsense.

With the condition that Venezuela is located far enough from the American borders, and in Cuba, although it is closer, there is no Russian base – it was liquidated in the early 2000s. “It is unlikely that the current Cuban leadership, which includes normalizing relations with the United States, will allow Russia, perhaps, to redirect something to itself,” the political scientist noted.

Earlier, The New York Times sources said that Russia would be ready to link nuclear missiles closer to the US. The authors of the publication compared this scenario with the crisis of the 1960s, when the USSR installed nuclear weapons in Cuba.

Answering a question about the deployment of Russian missiles in Cuba and Venezuela, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted that this is unacceptable, since these are sovereign countries. According to the Latin American countries that can be rented, they are ready to move into their territory.