![]() ![]() And Russian news agencies announced that additional supplies will follow.Ĭuba now receives direct flights from Russia (flights had been suspended after the invasion of Ukraine), and it has joined the ’ Mir’ payment system that Moscow created to facilitate the conversion of rubles to pesos and other currencies for tourism, trade and aid. Over 1,000 Russian oil executives and staff are expected to the visit Cuba by year’s end. By one estimate, Moscow has already sent the island more than $160 million worth of oil this year. Russia pledged to give oil and various industrial supplies to Cuba. Likewise, Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Gerardo Peñalver described the two countries as “strategic allies” cooperating against “unilateral coercive measures” from Washington. Shoigu announced that “Cuba has been and remains Russia’s most important ally in the region.” Shoigu promised that Moscow was “ready to render assistance to the island of freedom and to lend a shoulder to our Cuban friends.” In June, Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz visited Russia for more than ten days, including a meeting with Putin.Īlvaro Lopéz Miera, the Cuban defense minister, traveled to Moscow near the end of the month for discussions with his Russian counterparts - including Sergei Shoigu, one of the notorious architects of the war in Ukraine. Then, in April, Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, visited the island as part of a regional tour that included two other American adversaries - Venezuela and Nicaragua. In March, Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Russian Security Council and Igor Sechin, the powerful director of the Russian state oil company, Rosneft, met with leaders in Havana. ![]() Starting around the anniversary of the invasion in February 2023, high-level Russian officials began a steady stream of public visits to Cuba. Barely a month went by without a high-profile Russia-Cuba visit. ![]()
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