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Russia volition nonstop a 2nd vessel carrying lipid to Cuba arsenic the land grapples with a U.S. substance blockade, Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev said Thursday (April 2, 2026).
Cuba has been suffering from an vigor situation since January, erstwhile U.S. forces abducted Venezuela president and Cuban state Nicolas Maduro.
His removal deprived Cuba of its main lipid supplier.
Washington past threatened to tariff immoderate state that sold oregon provided lipid to the island, though it allowed Russia to present a tanker earlier this week for "humanitarian reasons".
"A vas from the Russian Federation broke done the blockade. A 2nd 1 is present being loaded. We volition not permission the Cubans successful trouble," Mr. Tsivilev was quoted arsenic saying by Russian authorities media.
A bully blinks: On the U.S. and Cuba
Moscow historically maintains adjacent ties with Havana and has criticised Washington for attempting to artifact substance deliveries.
Since the blockade began, the communist-run land has endured weeks of blackouts, substance rationing and nutrient shortages.
A Russian tanker carrying 730,000 barrels of crude arrived successful the Cuban larboard of Matanzas connected Tuesday (March 31, 2026), providing the land with its archetypal lipid shipment since January.
U.S. President Donald Trump, whose medication has agelong regarded Cuba arsenic a hostile regime, said connected Sunday (March 29, 2026) helium had "no problem" with Russia sending lipid to the island.
"Cuba's finished. They person a atrocious regime. They person precise atrocious and corrupt enactment and whether oregon not they get a vessel of lipid it's not going to matter," helium said.
