Russia announces the repatriation of its 4,000 tourists trapped by the serious fuel shortage in Cuba

For this two of its airlines, Rossiya and Severny Veter will arrive on the island to remove the thousands of Russian citizens that are there.n caught in the middle of the interruption of much of air transport due to fuel shortage.

Afterwards, Moscow will temporarily cease all flights to the Latin American nation.

He Trump administration has declared Cuba “an unusual and extraordinary threat” for the national security of the United States and has stated that the communist island will no longer receive oil from Venezuela.

Washington has also threatened to impose tariffs on other suppliers, such as Mexico, if they continue to send fuel to the island.

Due to this blockade, the Cuban Executive warned last Sunday the international airlines that operate on the island that as of Monday the country would run out of aviation fuel.

As announced by the Russian tourist authorities, in Cuba, the largest island in the Antilles, There are around 4,000 Russian tourists stranded.

Russia is the second largest source of tourists to Cubaafter Canada, with 131,000 travelers in 2025.

The Kremlin reacted to this situation and asserted that Russia seekssolutions together with the Cuban authorities and will do everything possible to help in the airport crisis and encourage the return of Russian tourists after Havana’s announcement that it has run out of jet fuel.

“Both through diplomatic channels and other means, we maintain intense contacts with Cuban friends,” declared the spokesman for the Russian presidency, Dmitri Peskov, noting that “the situation in Cuba is really critical.”

He added that “these suffocating measures by the United States really generate great difficulties for the country” and assured that Moscow and Havana are studying “possible ways to solve these problems, or at least alleviate them.”