The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday that the “anti-Cuban” actions recently announced by Washington were regrettable and that Moscow confirmed its solidarity with Havana.
The Ministry also said that the new approach towards Cuba by the U.S. administration resembles a “Cold war rhetoric".
U.S. President Donald Trump had on Friday ordered tighter restrictions on Americans travelling to Cuba and a clampdown on U.S. business dealings with the Caribbean islands military, saying he was cancelling former President Barack Obama's "terrible and misguided deal” liberalising ties with Havana.
Moscow said Trump’s policy changes showed that “anti— Cuban discourse is still widely in demand. This cannot but cause regret.”
It said that easing of sanctions under Obama was a “well-thought-out political decision in which there were no losers except marginal Castro opponents.”
Russia said it was reaffirming its “unshakeable solidarity with Cuba.”
Cuban President Raul Castro visited Russia in 2015 while President Vladimir Putin visited the island on a tour of Latin America in 2014, meeting both the president and the revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, who died last year.
