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Tanker carrying Russian oil enters Cuba’s exclusive economic zone, ship data says

By Thomson Reuters Mar 29, 2026 | 5:28 PM

March 29 (Reuters) – 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 ⁠Marine Traffic and LSEG.

(Reporting by Marianna Parraga; Editing by Dave ​Sherwood)