Russia plans to send a second ship carrying oil to Cuba, the Russian energy minister has said, as the Caribbean nation struggles under a crippling United States blockade.
Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev said on Thursday that the cargo was being loaded and would be brought to Cuba.
“Cuba is in a total blockade; it’s been cut off. Whose shipment of oil made it? A Russian vessel broke through the blockade,” Tsivilev said, referring to a first Russian tanker that reached the island earlier this week.
“A second one is being loaded right now. We will not leave Cubans alone in trouble.”
i learned the other day that the previous tanker ship was escorted by 2 russian naval vessels and clearly meant as an insurance in case trump chose to escalate the situation in an environment where the world using russian oil as a crutch to survive.
it makes me wonder about why none of these articles bother to mention the military escort.