“We read a lot of messages about it. It’s worrying information. We know that our Cuban comrades are determined to defend their interests, to defend their independence,” the Kremlin spokesman told the press.

Peskov’s statements are based on the publication of the daily Político about Washington’s plans to block access to hydrocarbons by the Caribbean nation’s authorities.

In this regard, the head of the press service of the Russian presidency was emphatic in stating that “we also value our special bilateral relations with Cuba very much”.

The US media reported last Friday, citing government sources, that the Administration of President Donald Trump is preparing a total siege on oil imports from the Island.

On the eve, Cuba’s deputy foreign minister, Carlos Fernandez de Cossío, described this claim as a brutal assault on a peaceful nation that poses no threat to the United States.

In this sense, the diplomat condemned these measures as irrefutable proof that the economic shortages facing the Cuban people are mainly provoked and designed by Washington.

The Antillean deputy minister recalled that figures like Marco Rubio and John Bolton, in 2019, urged Trump to order a similar blockade, action then curbed by national security agencies who considered this course of unjustifiable confrontation irresponsible and dangerous.

The new rhetoric to suffocate Cuba, sponsored by the White House tenant and his elite, follows the similar policy applied in Venezuela where on January 3, US forces carried out a large-scale military attack and kidnapped President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores.

Following these events, many nations globally, including Russia, condemned the actions of the United States in the Latin American region.

In this regard, Moscow repudiated the attack and pointed out that Caracas, like any other territory, should have the right to decide its fate without any kind of foreign intervention.

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