A Russia-flagged tanker carrying some 700,000 barrels of crude arrived in Cuba's Matanzas Bay at daybreak on Tuesday, according to a Reuters witness and shipping data, marking the first significant oil delivery since the
A Russia-flagged tanker carrying some 700,000 barrels of crude arrived in Cuba's Matanzas Bay at daybreak on Tuesday, according to a Reuters witness and shipping data, marking the first significant oil delivery since the Trump administration cut off the island's fuel supply.
The Anatoly Kolodkin vessel, under U.S. sanctions, entered Cuban territorial waters late on Sunday not far from the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay. The U.S. said it was allowing the tanker to deliver fuel for humanitarian reasons.
The Aframax tanker entered Cuba's largest fuel storage port under mostly clear skies and light winds at sunrise and appeared to prepare to approach its offloading facilities. Much of the nearby city - and the majority of Cuba - was without power at that time.
"This is like a drop of water in the desert," said Matanzas resident Marino Gálvez, 66, who watched the ship maneuvering in the bay from the city's waterfront boulevard.
"What's being done to us is very unfair, and the people shouldn't have to pay for any government's policies."
Cuba has not received an oil tanker in three months, according to President Miguel Diaz-Canel, a predicament which exacerbated an energy crisis that has brought repeated blackouts
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