{"id":5839,"date":"2026-04-03T04:36:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T04:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/russia-sending-second-ship-with-oil-to-cuba-amid-us-blockade\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T04:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T04:36:26","slug":"russia-sending-second-ship-with-oil-to-cuba-amid-us-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/russia-sending-second-ship-with-oil-to-cuba-amid-us-blockade\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia sending second ship with oil to Cuba amid US blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Announcement comes days after Russian tanker brought some 700,000 barrels of crude to Cuba in response to energy crisis.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>Russia plans to send a second ship <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/4\/1\/russia-to-continue-helping-cuba-after-first-oil-shipment-arrives-diplomat\">carrying oil to Cuba<\/a>, the Russian energy minister has said, as the Caribbean nation struggles under a crippling United States blockade.<\/p>\n<p>Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev said on Thursday that the cargo was being loaded and would be brought to Cuba.<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span>list of 3 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>list 1 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/31\/i-need-to-leave-cubas-tourism-workers-reel-from-us-oil-blockade\">\u2018I need to leave\u2019: Cuba\u2019s tourism workers reel from US oil blockade<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 2 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/economy\/2026\/3\/31\/russian-tanker-reaches-cuba-amid-critical-energy-shortage\">Russian tanker reaches Cuba amid critical energy shortage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 3 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/4\/1\/russia-to-continue-helping-cuba-after-first-oil-shipment-arrives-diplomat\">Russia says will continue helping Cuba after first oil shipment arrives<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>\u201cCuba is in a total blockade; it\u2019s been cut off. Whose shipment of oil made it? A Russian vessel broke through the blockade,\u201d Tsivilev said, referring to a first Russian tanker that reached the island earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA second one is being loaded right now. We will not leave Cubans alone in trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His comments come just days after a Russian-flagged tanker carrying about 700,000 barrels of crude <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/economy\/2026\/3\/31\/russian-tanker-reaches-cuba-amid-critical-energy-shortage\">docked in Cuba\u2019s Matanzas oil terminal<\/a> on Tuesday, marking the first significant oil delivery to the country in about three months.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump\u2019s administration has imposed a fuel blockade of Cuba but granted a waiver to allow this week\u2019s delivery for humanitarian reasons. It said such decisions would be handled on a case-by-case basis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/31\/cuba-crisis-explained-who-holds-power-and-could-diaz-canel-be-replaced\">Cuba has endured<\/a> weeks of blackouts, fuel rationing and food shortages since the Trump administration earlier this year threatened to impose tariffs on any country that sold or provided oil to the country.<\/p>\n<p>The blockade, which came into effect following the US abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in January, has been decried by Cuban officials as \u201ccruel\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In the capital Havana on Thursday, hundreds of people gathered on bicycles, motorcycles and small, three-wheeled vehicles to protest the US embargo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes to Cuba! No to the blockade!\u201d the crowd shouted along Havana\u2019s famed seawall, past the US Embassy and towards the downtown area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are strangling us,\u201d Ivan Beltran, 62, told the AFP news agency as he rode an electric tricycle with a photo of the late Cuban revolution leader Fidel Castro on the windshield.<\/p>\n<p>During an official visit to St Petersburg on Wednesday, Cuban Deputy Prime Minister Oscar Perez-Oliva told Russian network RT that Havana and Moscow \u201chave begun efforts to achieve stability in fuel supplies\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He also said the two sides made progress in talks aimed at increasing the participation of Russian companies in oil exploration and production in Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who has repeatedly threatened to attack Cuba and remove its government, said on Sunday that he had \u201cno problem\u201d with Russia sending oil to the island.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCuba\u2019s finished. They 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 Trump said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcement comes days after Russian tanker brought some 700,000 barrels of crude to Cuba in response to energy crisis. Russia plans to send a second ship carrying oil to Cuba, the Russian energy minister has said, as the Caribbean nation struggles under a crippling United States blockade. 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