Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba He maintained good relations with the successor republics. While the island maintained special connection with Ukraine Because more than 26 thousand children were cared for free in Havana after the Chernobyl disaster, cooperation with Belarus was least developed.

He Russian-Ukrainian conflict came to switch roles and confirm that Cuba had already left Ukraine since the day Russia annexed Crimea, March 18, 2014. Havana remained silent then, as it did when the war began in February 2022.

A new sign of this gap appeared at the beginning of 2024, but this time from Ukraine, whose stock market moved Cuba into the list of risk countries along with Burma, Syria, Russia, Belarus, Iran and North Korea.