00:00A Russian oil tanker is heading for Cuba, delivering hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil to the island, suffering
00:07blackouts under a U.S. economic blockade.
00:10According to maritime tracking data, the sanctioned Russian tanker Anatoly Kolodkin is in the eastern Atlantic as of Wednesday, bound
00:18for Cuba.
00:22Data showed that the Russian-flagged vessel loaded 730,000 barrels of crude in the Russian port of Primorsk on
00:30March 8.
00:31It is scheduled to unload at the Matanzas oil terminal on the north of Cuba around March 23.
00:37Another tanker, the Hong Kong-flagged Seahorse, loaded nearly 200,000 barrels of diesel in late January, off Cyprus from
00:46another tanker.
00:47It exited the Mediterranean on February 13 and has since been sailing west across the Atlantic,
00:54currently situated in the northwestern Caribbean just 1,500 kilometers from the Cuban coast.
01:00The U.S. has sought to intensify pressure on Cuba since January, signaling a takeover,
01:06cutting off Venezuelan oil shipments to the island and threatening to impose tariffs on any country selling oil to it.
01:13Cuba has not imported any oil since January 9 following a shipment from Mexico.
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