{"id":867198,"date":"2026-04-02T13:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/867198\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:44:14","slug":"russia-will-send-second-oil-tanker-to-cuba-energy-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/867198\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Will Send Second Oil Tanker to Cuba, Energy Minister Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moscow plans to send a second ship carrying oil to Cuba as its economy buckles under the Trump administration\u2019s fuel blockade, Russian Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev said Thursday.<\/p>\n

The deliveries come amid a deepening energy crisis on the island, marked by widespread blackouts after a U.S. embargo sharply curtailed oil supplies in recent months.<\/p>\n

\u201cA vessel from the Russian Federation broke through the blockade. A second one is now being loaded. We will not leave the Cubans in trouble,\u201d state media quoted\u00a0Tsivilev as saying.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, a Russian tanker unloaded hundreds of metric tons of oil at the port of Matanzas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That ship, the Anatoly Kolodkin, is listed as coming under sanctions against Russia by the United States, European Union and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump said<\/a> he was not opposed to shipments of oil to Cuba, including from Russia, despite his own administration tightening economic sanctions on the island as part of a \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d strategy.<\/p>\n

Cuba, which imports around 60% of its energy supply, previously relied on oil sold by Venezuela. Those shipments ended after then-President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro was captured in a U.S. military raid.<\/p>\n

Russia has described the oil deliveries to Cuba as humanitarian assistance.<\/p>\n

AFP contributed reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moscow plans to send a second ship carrying oil to Cuba as its economy buckles under the Trump…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[12711,2661,332],"class_list":{"0":"post-867198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-cuba","9":"tag-oil","10":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116335415558585697","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}