[News] U.S. Falsely Claims Cuban Participation in Ukraine-Russia war to influence U.N. vote against blockade

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_*Message from our comrades in the Cuban Embassy:*_
*The US government is pushing a media campaign a_c_cusing Cuba of 
participating in the Ukraine-Russia war. The main goal is to damage 
Cuba’s vote against the blockade in the UN, at the end of this month, 
and pressure several countries to change their historic vote. Our 
country and Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a categorical 
declaration condemning these accusations.
*
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  Cuba Categorically Rejects Claims of Participation in the Conflict in
  Ukraine


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Oct. 11, 2025

Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

*Cuba Categorically Rejects Claims of Participation in the Conflict in 
Ukraine *

*Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs *

The Government of the Republic of Cuba rejects the mendacious 
allegations being spread by the United States Government concerning an 
alleged involvement of Cuba in the military conflict in Ukraine. This is 
a slanderous accusation first launched in 2023 by certain media outlets 
without offering any evidence or substantiation of any kind, and clearly 
serving an assigned purpose.

The Cuban Government categorically reaffirms that Cuba is not part of 
the armed conflict in Ukraine, nor does it participate with military 
personnel there or in any other country.

Our authorities have no precise information regarding Cuban nationals 
who, on their own initiative, have participated or are participating in 
the military forces of either side of the conflict. What is indisputable 
is that none of them acts with the encouragement, commitment, or consent 
of the Cuban State.

In accordance with its national legislation and international 
obligations, the Cuban Government maintains a zero-tolerance policy 
toward mercenarism, human trafficking, and the participation of its 
nationals in any armed confrontation in another country—all of which 
constitute serious crimes subject to severe penalties under national law.

As declared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on September 4, 2023, 
upon detecting the presence of Cubans in the conflict in Ukraine, steps 
were taken to neutralize recruitment within the national territory, and 
criminal proceedings were initiated accordingly.

Between 2023 and 2025, Cuban courts have conducted nine criminal 
proceedings for the offense of mercenarism, involving forty defendants. 
In eight of these cases, trials have been held, and in five, guilty 
verdicts were handed down against twenty-six defendants, with sentences 
ranging from five to fourteen years of imprisonment. Three cases await 
the court’s judgment, and one case is pending trial.
Cubans participating on both sides of the armed conflict have been 
recruited through organizations not based in our country and having no 
connection whatsoever with the Cuban Government. In the vast majority of 
cases, this recruitment has been carried out abroad among Cuban 
nationals residing or temporarily staying in various countries, just as 
recruitment for that conflict has taken place among people of many other 
nationalities, in numbers that also remain imprecise.

The United States Government has not provided and will not be able to 
offer a single piece of evidence to support its baseless and mendacious 
accusations in this new defamatory campaign against Cuba.

Havana, October 11, 2025.

(Cubaminrex)

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