Russian missiles deployed in Cuba and aimed at the U.S. is a threat that has never gone away. The only constant in this threat is one few will address directly: Cuba’s Castro dictatorship. Those who are critical of U.S. sanctions on Cuba like to say America is still stuck in the Cold War, conveniently forgetting that the only regime from the 1962 Cuban missile crisis still in power today with many of the same actors in charge is the Cuban regime. Once again, America is facing a threat of missiles 90 miles from our shore, and once again, the real culprit facilitating this threat will likely escape all scrutiny.

Via Diario de Cuba (my translation):

Russian Kalibr missiles may be deployed in Cuba ‘in the near future’
Russia could deploy cruise missiles to Cuba and Venezuela “in the near future,” and although these missiles would not carry nuclear warheads, they could strike strategic locations in the United States rapidly and precisely. This is according to a claim made by retired Russian Army Colonel Victor Baranets, a military expert for the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper and a Kremlin spokesman.

Baranets mentioned the topic, which had been speculated upon several times during 2022 following the invasion of Ukraine by Moscow, but which the Russian press has since stopped discussing. According to him, the Kremlin could deploy “smart missiles” on the island that do not carry a nuclear payload but are capable of destroying targets in the United States.