A Russian-flagged oil tanker reportedly reached Cuba on Monday after US President Donald Trump allowed it to break his administration’s fuel blockade of the island nation as its energy crisis deepens.
The Russian transport ministry said the Anatoly Kolodkin – a tanker with nearly 730,000 barrels of oil onboard – had arrived at the Matanzas port in Cuba on Monday, according to Russian state-run news agencies. CNN could not independently verify the ship’s location; data from the ship tracking site MarineTraffic showed it as being just off Cuba on Monday morning.
Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin also said on Monday the ship had arrived in Cuba. Asked if the US agreed…