In a phone call to Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev, who reported the exchange on his Telegram channel, former Cuban President Raul Castro said he supported the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine and assured him that he was certain that Moscow would achieve victory over Kyiv.
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"I concluded my task as first secretary ... with the satisfaction of having fulfilled (my duty) and confidence in the future of the fatherland,” he said in a typically terse, to-the-point finale that contrasted with the impassioned verbal pyrotechnics of his brother Fidel, who died in 2016.
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