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The Cuban for­eign min­is­ter vis­it­ed Moscow on Wednes­day as the is­land faces black­outs and se­vere fu­el short­ages wors­ened by a U.S oil em­bar­go.

Cuban For­eign Min­is­ter Bruno Ro­driguez held talks with his Russ­ian coun­ter­part Sergey Lavrov and was set to meet lat­er in the day with Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin.

Lavrov urged the U.S. to re­frain from blockad­ing Cu­ba, which has strug­gled to im­port oil for its pow­er plants and re­finer­ies af­ter U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump threat­ened any na­tion that sold oil to Cu­ba with tar­iffs.