"The sanctioned Russian tanker Anatoly Kolodkin loaded 730,000 barrels of crude in the Russian port of Primorsk on 8 March, and on Wednesday at 1600 GMT was in the eastern Atlantic, bound for Cuba, maritime analytics firm Kpler said. Its data showed the Russian-flagged vessel, owned by the Russian state shipping company Sovcomflot, was scheduled to unload at the Matanzas oil terminal on the north of the island about 23 March."
"Trump declared on Monday that he expects to have the honour of taking Cuba, claiming that he could do anything I want amid US negotiations with Havana over the country's future. The US has sought to intensify pressure on Cuba, its longtime foe, since seizing Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro in January."
"Trump has since cut off Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba and threatened to impose tariffs on any country selling oil to the country, stating that Cuba would receive no more oil or money as a result of his actions."
Russia is sending significant oil supplies to Cuba amid the island's severe energy crisis caused by the US economic blockade. The sanctioned tanker Anatoly Kolodkin loaded 730,000 barrels of crude from Russia and was scheduled to unload at Cuba's Matanzas terminal in late March. A second vessel, the Sea Horse, carries nearly 200,000 barrels of diesel toward Cuba. This shipment arrives as Trump threatens military intervention in Cuba and has cut off Venezuelan oil supplies while threatening tariffs against any nation selling oil to the island. Cuba has received no oil since January when Mexico halted deliveries under US pressure following Nicolas Maduro's capture.
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