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


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)

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