{"id":2123,"date":"2026-04-02T16:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/2123\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:48:06","slug":"russia-intends-to-send-second-oil-tanker-to-cuba-after-arrival-of-anatoly-kolodkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/2123\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia intends to send second oil tanker to Cuba after arrival of Anatoly Kolodkin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A tugboat guides the Russian oil tanker Anatoly Kolodkin at the oil terminal in the port of Matanzas, Cuba, on Tuesday.YAMIL LAGE\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Russia plans to send a second oil tanker to Cuba, Russian Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilyov said Thursday, citing the island\u2019s ongoing energy blockade and reiterating Russia\u2019s solidarity with the troubled Caribbean nation.<\/p>\n

The announcement came two days after sanctioned Russian tanker Anatoly Kolodkin docked at the Cuban port of Matanzas laden with 730,000 barrels of oil, marking the first time in three months that an oil tanker reached the island. Experts have said that shipment could produce about 180,000 barrels of diesel, enough to feed Cuba\u2019s daily demand for nine or 10 days.<\/p>\n

Tsivilyov spoke on the sidelines of an energy forum in the Russian city of Kazan.<\/p>\n

\u201cCuba is in a total blockade. It\u2019s been cut off. Whose shipment of oil made it? A Russian vessel broke through the blockade. A second one is being loaded right now. We will not leave Cubans alone in trouble,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n

Russian vessel Anatoly Kolodkin docked Tuesday at the Cuban port of Matanzas laden with 730,000 barrels of oil, marking the first time in three months that an oil tanker reached the island. <\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n

In late January, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on any country that sells or supplies oil to Cuba, although he recently said he had \u201cno problem\u201d with the Russian oil tanker that delivered relief to the island on Tuesday, saying he didn\u2019t think it would help prop up the Cuban government.<\/p>\n

\u201cCuba\u2019s finished,\u201d Trump told reporters as he flew back to Washington on Sunday. \u201cThey have a bad regime. They have very bad and corrupt leadership and whether or not they get a boat of oil, it\u2019s not going to matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cuba produces barely 40 per cent of its required fuel and relies on imports to sustain its crumbling energy grid.<\/p>\n

Critical oil shipments from Venezuela were halted when the U.S. attacked the South American country and arrested its long-time leader, Nicolas Maduro.<\/p>\n

Since then, Mexico also has halted its oil shipments to Cuba after Trump warned of tariffs.<\/p>\n

The U.S. energy blockade has deepened Cuba\u2019s energy and economic crises, leading to severe blackouts, cuts to the state-run food ration system and shortages of water and medicine, with the island\u2019s most vulnerable hit hardest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: A tugboat guides the Russian oil tanker Anatoly Kolodkin at the oil terminal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1620,1608,1621,847,1600,1622,1619,1599,1614,1615,1611,1601,1598,49,193,150,1613,1606,1633,1602,1603,477,1609,1610,1295,1623,1605,1628,1629,1631,1626,1630,1624,1627,1604,1297,1617,47,1616,1625,5,1607,290,1618,1612,257,173,1632],"class_list":{"0":"post-2123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-arts-news","10":"tag-bc","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-breaking-news-video","13":"tag-british-columbia","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-canada-news","16":"tag-canada-sports","17":"tag-canada-sports-news","18":"tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","19":"tag-canadian-breaking-news","20":"tag-canadian-news","21":"tag-economy","22":"tag-education","23":"tag-environment","24":"tag-federal-government","25":"tag-foreign-news","26":"tag-globe-and-mail","27":"tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","28":"tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","29":"tag-government","30":"tag-life-news","31":"tag-lifestyle","32":"tag-local-news","33":"tag-manitoba","34":"tag-national-news","35":"tag-new-brunswick","36":"tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","37":"tag-northwest-territories","38":"tag-nova-scotia","39":"tag-nunavut","40":"tag-ontario","41":"tag-pei","42":"tag-photos","43":"tag-political-news","44":"tag-political-opinion","45":"tag-politics","46":"tag-politics-news","47":"tag-quebec","48":"tag-russia","49":"tag-sports-news","50":"tag-technology","51":"tag-travel","52":"tag-trudeau","53":"tag-us-news","54":"tag-world-news","55":"tag-yukon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}