Trump appears to relax oil blockade on Cuba as Russian tanker arrives
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US president says he has ‘no problem’ with countries sending oil to Cuba, in potential lifeline to island nation

Anatoly Kolodkin could soon discharge at Matanzas port, US official says, three months after Cuba’s last oil import

The US is allowing a Russian tanker full of crude oil to reach Cuba, the New York Times reported on Sunday, possibly granting a lifeline to the Caribbean island amid a de facto oil blockade imposed by Washington.

Ship tracking data showed the Russian-flagged tanker Anatoly ⁠Kolodkin on Sunday was just off the eastern tip of Cuba.

Anatoly Kolodkin, which departed from Primorsk after loading some 650,000 barrels of Urals crude, could soon discharge at Cuba’s Matanzas port if it does not change its current course, according to tracking services MarineTraffic and LSEG.