Russia to suspend flights to Cuba as Trump sanctions cut fuel supply

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Russia volition temporarily suspend flights to Cuba aft airlines reported difficulties refueling craft connected the island, aviation authorities said Wednesday.

Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency Rosaviatsia said successful a connection posted connected Telegram that the airlines Rossiya, portion of the Aeroflot Group, and Nordwind were forced to set their formation programs owed to problems securing substance successful Cuba.

In the coming days, Rossiya volition run respective outbound-only flights from Havana and Varadero to Moscow to instrumentality Russian tourists location earlier halting service.

After those repatriation flights are completed, the airline’s Cuba programme volition beryllium suspended until the concern improves, the bureau said, calling the determination 1 made "in the interests of passengers."

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Two commercialized  rider  planes parked connected  the tarmac astatine  Sheremetyevo International Airport successful  Moscow.

Aeroflot Russian Airlines and Rossiya Airlines pitchy craft astatine Moscow-Sheremetyevo International Airport successful Moscow, Russia, Sept. 16, 2021. (Leonid Faerberg/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The Transport Ministry and Rosaviatsia said they are maintaining adjacent interaction with Cuban aviation authorities and are exploring alternate options to reconstruct two-way service.

The announcement comes 2 weeks aft President Donald Trump declared a nationalist exigency implicit Cuba and authorized caller measures aimed astatine choking disconnected the island’s lipid supplies.

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A car   is refueled astatine  a work  presumption    successful  the Cuban capital.

A conveyance fills up with substance astatine a state presumption successful Havana, Cuba, Jan. 28, 2026. (Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images)

In a Jan. 29 enforcement order, Trump said Cuba poses an "unusual and bonzer threat" to U.S. nationalist information and empowered his medication to enforce tariffs connected goods from immoderate state that "directly oregon indirectly sells oregon different provides immoderate lipid to Cuba."

The order, which took effect Jan. 30, allows further duties connected imports from countries recovered to beryllium supplying lipid to Havana, portion of what Trump described arsenic a "zero tolerance" argumentation toward the Cuban government.

The Federal Aviation Administration’s website shows a Notice to Airmen, oregon NOTAM, an authoritative alert issued to pilots astir hazards oregon operational disruptions, was posted Feb. 10 for 9 Cuban airports informing that Jet A-1 substance is not available.

Travelers locomotion  done  a Havana airdrome  terminal pulling rolling suitcases.

Passengers transportation their luggage astatine Jose Marti International Airport successful Havana, Cuba, July 2, 2025. (Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images)

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The advisory covers Havana (MUHA), Varadero (MUVR), Cienfuegos (MUCF), Santa Clara (MUSC), Camagüey (MUCM), Cayo Coco (MUCC), Holguín (MUHG), Santiago de Cuba (MUCU) and Manzanillo (MUMZ), and remains successful effect done March 11.

Ashley Carnahan is simply a writer astatine Fox News Digital.

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