{"id":1362587,"date":"2026-02-25T22:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/american-boat-entered-cuban-waters-and-opened-fire-there-are-casualties\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T22:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:31:14","slug":"american-boat-entered-cuban-waters-and-opened-fire-there-are-casualties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/american-boat-entered-cuban-waters-and-opened-fire-there-are-casualties\/","title":{"rendered":"American boat entered Cuban waters and opened fire: there are casualties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the morning of February 25, an American boat entered the waters off the northern coast of Cuba and opened fire.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c24drvj8yl2o\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was reported by<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the BBC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The vessel, registered in Florida, was found near Cayo Falcones, in the central province of Villa Clara.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuba&#8217;s Interior Ministry reported that the coast guard shot dead four people on the boat and injured six others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A statement from the Cuban Embassy in the United States said that when five border guards approached the boat for identification, they opened fire, wounding the Cuban commander.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn the face of current challenges, Cuba reaffirms its determination to defend its territorial waters,\u201d the Cuban diplomatic mission said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Recall that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/operatsiia-venesuela-iak-pryklad-tramp-hotuie-zminu-vlady-na-kubi\/\">Washington is considering the example of Venezuela and the operation to capture Maduro<\/a> as a model of how to put pressure on the Cuban government.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier, US Secretary of State Marco <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/z-nym-treba-shchos-robyty-rubio-nazvav-uriad-kuby-velykoiu-problemoiu\/\">Rubio sharply criticized the Cuban government<\/a> , calling it a &#8220;big problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the morning of February 25, an American boat entered the waters off the northern coast of Cuba and opened fire. This was reported by the BBC. The vessel, registered in Florida, was found near Cayo Falcones, in the central province of Villa Clara. Cuba&#8217;s Interior Ministry reported that the coast guard shot dead four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1362581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1362587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1362581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}