Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Moscow, Jan 26. - Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov expressed today that his country is concerned about circulating reports regarding a possible U.S. oil blockade against Cuba.
"We read many messages on this topic. It is worrying information. We know that our Cuban comrades are determined to defend their interests, to defend their independence," the Kremlin spokesperson told the press.
Peskov's statements are based on a publication by the newspaper Politico regarding Washington's plans to block the Caribbean nation's access to hydrocarbons.
In this regard, the head of the Russian presidential press service was emphatic in stating that "we also highly value our special bilateral relations with Cuba."
The U.S. media outlet reported last Friday, citing government sources, that the administration of President Donald Trump is preparing a total blockade on oil imports to the largest island of the Antilles.
The day before, Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío described this intention as "a brutal assault against a peaceful nation that poses no threat whatsoever to the United States."
In this sense, the diplomat condemned that such measures are "irrefutable proof that the economic hardships faced by the Cuban people are primarily provoked and designed from Washington."
The Caribbean deputy minister recalled that figures such as Marco Rubio and John Bolton, in 2019, urged Trump to order a similar blockade—an action halted at the time by national security agencies, which deemed such a course of unjustifiable confrontation irresponsible and dangerous.
The new rhetoric to suffocate Cuba, sponsored by the White House occupant and his elite, follows a policy similar to that applied in Venezuela, where on January 3 of this year, U.S. forces carried out a large-scale military attack and kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores.
Following these events, numerous nations globally, including Russia, condemned the United States' actions in the Latin American region.
In this regard, Moscow repudiated the attack and stated that Caracas, like any other territory, must have the right to decide its own destiny without any foreign intervention. (Text and photo: PL)
