Russia Sends Second Oil Tanker to Cuba After Breaking the Three-month Energy Blockade by the USA

Russia is preparing a second oil shipment for Cuba following the arrival of a sanctioned tanker that broke a three-month energy blockade.The Kremlin confirmed the loading of the new vessel after the Anatoly Kolodkin delivered seven hundred and thirty thousand barrels to Matanzas.The USA-led embargo, triggered by the detention of Nicolas Maduro, had previously halted imports from Mexico and Venezuela.While President Donald Trump dismissed the shipments as insignificant, the fuel provides critical relief to an island producing only forty percent of its energy.
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