US will reportedly allow Russian oil tanker to reach Cuba amid blockade

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

A Russia-flagged tanker carrying Russian crude entered Cuba’s exclusive economic zone on Sunday, according to ship tracking data, in what could be the Caribbean country’s first oil import in over two months.

Tanker 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.