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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Russian oil tanker heading to Cuba amid US economic blockade

A street in Havana during the nationwide blackout this week.
Cuba scrambled to restore power after a nationwide blackout this week, amid Trump’s oil blockade Photograph: Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images

Hundreds of thousands of barrels of Russian oil are heading to Cuba, according to maritime tracking data, as the communist island suffers blackouts under a US economic blockade and Donald Trump threatens to take it over.

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.

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