MOSCOW, April 18 (AP)-Following is the text of a Soviet Government statement on Cuba as distributed today by the Soviet press agency Tass:

The Government of the Republic of Cuba has announced that in Cuba, on the morning of April 16, aircraft of the United States bomber B-26 type subjected to barbarous bombing separate districs of the capital of Cuba, Havana and a number of other inhabited localities.

There are many killed and injured among the inhabitants of the capital. Following the bombing, early in the morning of April 17, armed forces of the interventionist landed at various places on the Cuban coast.

The landing took place under the cover of warships and the United States Air Force. Cuban Government troops and the people's militia are engaged in fighting against the invading gangs.

In connection with the invasion of Cuba, the Soviet Government states the following:

The attack on Cuba is an open challenge to all freedom-loving peoples, a dangerous provocation against peace in the area of the Caribbean Sea nd against universal peace. There can be no justification of this criminal invasion.

The organizers of the aggression against Cuba are encroaching on the inalienable right of the Cuban people to live free and independently: they are trampling underfoot the elementary norms of international relations, the principles of peaceful coexistence of states.

The Cuban people has not threatened and is not threatening anyone. Having overthrown over two years ago the tyranny of the bloody despot Batista, lackey of the big United States monopolies, the Cuban people has embarked upon the road of pursuing an independent policy, a road of raising its economy and improving its life.

Cuba Called No Threat

It demands to be left in peace, to be left to build its life in conformity with its national ideals. Is it possible that small Cuba with its population of 6,000,000 can threaten anyone, and such a big state as the United States at that? Of course not.

Yet since the first days of the victory of the national revolution in Cuba, the United States became the center where the counter-revolutionary elements thrown out from Cuba foregathered, where they were formed into gangs and armed for struggle against the popular Government of Fidel Castro.

Recent events show that the present United States Government, which declared itself an heir of the Roosevelt policy, is in essence pursuing the reactionary imperialist policy of Dulles and Eisenhower, condemned by the peoples.

The United States Government declared through President Kennedy that the basic controversial question on Cuba is not one of a quarrel between the United States and Cuba but one for the Cubans alone.

The President said that he advocates a free and independent Cuba. In fact, however, everything was done on the territory of the United States and the countries dependent on it to prepare an aggressive attack on Cuba.

But for the open aggressive policy of the United States toward Cuba would the counter-revolutionary gangs of the hirelings of United States capital have been able to create on United States territory the so-called Cuban Government? What territory served as a starting point for the piratical attack on Cuba? It was the territory of the United States and that of the neighbor countries which are under its control.

Whose are the arms with which the counter-revolutionary gangs are equipped? They are United States arms. With whose funds have they been supported and are being maintained? With the funds appropriated by the United States.

It is clear from this that it is precisely the United States which is the inspirer and organizer of the present bandit-like attack against Cuba.

Why did the United States organize this criminal attack on the Cuban Republic?

Because, after the overthrow of the tyranny of Batista, the Cuban people finished with the plunder and exploitation of its homeland by foreign monopolies.

These monopolies do not wish to concede anything to the people of Cuba, the peoples of Latin America. They fear that Cuba, building its independent life, will become an example for other countries of Latin America.

With the hands of the base mercenaries they want to take from the Cuban people the right to determine their own fate, as they did previously with Guatemala.

Free Choice Defended

But every people has the right to live as it wishes, and no one, no state, has the right to impose its own way of life on other peoples.

The Cuban people have passed through a long, harsh and difficult school of struggle for its freedom and independence against foreign oppressors and their accomplices, and it will not be brought to its knees, will not permit the yoke of foreign enslavers to be placed upon its shoulders.

All progressive mankind, all upright people, are on the side of Cuba.

The Government of the Soviet Union states that the Soviet Union, like other peace-loving countries, will not abandon the Cuban people in their trouble, will not refuse it all necessary aid and support in the just struggle for freedom and independence of Cuba.

The Soviet Government, at this crucial moment, for the sake of preserving universal peace, appeals to the Government of the United States to take measures to cut short the aggression against Cuba.

Intervention in Cuba's internal affairs, protection and aid to the counter-revolutionary bands must be cut short immediately.

The Soviet Government hopes that it will be understood in the United States that aggression against Cuba goes against the interests of the American people and is capable of jeopardizing the peaceful life of the population of the United States itself.

The Soviet Government demands the urgent study by the General Assembly of the United Nations of the question of aggressive actions of the United States, which has prepared and unleashed armed intervention against Cuba.

The Government of the U.S.R.R. appeals to the Governments of all United Nations member states to do all necessary for the immediate cessation of aggressive actions against Cuba, the continuation of which may give rise to the most serious consequences for universal peace.

At an hour when the sovereignty and independence of Cuba, a sovereign member state of the United Nations, are subjected to danger, it is the duty of all member countries to render her all the necessary aid and support.

The Soviet Government reserves the right, if armed intervention in the affairs of the Cuban people is not cut short, to take, together with other countries, all steps to render the necessary aid to the Republic of Cuba.