{"id":560918,"date":"2026-04-02T21:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/560918\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T21:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:44:07","slug":"russia-sending-second-ship-with-oil-to-cuba-amid-us-blockade-oil-and-gas-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/560918\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia sending second ship with oil to Cuba amid US blockade | Oil and Gas News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Announcement comes days after Russian tanker brought some 700,000 barrels of crude to Cuba in response to energy crisis.<\/p>\n

Published On 2 Apr 20262 Apr 2026<\/p>\n

Russia plans to send a second ship carrying oil to Cuba<\/a>, the Russian energy minister has said, as the Caribbean nation struggles under a crippling United States blockade.<\/p>\n

Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev said on Thursday that the cargo was being loaded and would be brought to Cuba.<\/p>\n

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\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

\u201cA second one is being loaded right now. We will not leave Cubans alone in trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n

His comments come just days after a Russian-flagged tanker carrying about 700,000 barrels of crude 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

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

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

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

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

\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

\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

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

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

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

\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Announcement comes days after Russian tanker brought some 700,000 barrels of crude to Cuba in response to energy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3668,1872,1076,3140,3,45063,111,1206,21,19,22,20,25,1209,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-560918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-cuba","10":"tag-energy","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-latin-america","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-oil-and-gas","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-us-canada","23":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}