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Havana rejects Trump's threats against any country that sells oil to Cuba, describing them as an "act of aggression."

Trump signed an executive order declaring a national emergency over Cuba and authorizing new tariffs on countries that supply oil to the island. The order allows the United States to impose additional tariffs on imports from nations that directly or indirectly provide oil to Cuba

Zelensky: I thank the U.S. side for its efforts to stop the attacks on the energy sector at this time, and we hope that U.S. will be able to ensure this. "There is a statement by the President of the United States today. The situation now at night and these days, the real situation at our energy facilities, in our cities will show this," the President of Ukraine added

Lukoil, a Russian oil company that was sanctioned by Washington, announced the sale of its foreign assets to the U.S. investment firm Carlyle. Lukoil say is has signed an agreement with Carlyle to sell LUKOIL International GmbH but did not disclose the deal's value

Drones have attacked oil depot in Khokholsky of Voronezh region

Tonight tens of thousands of Cubans fill the streets of Havana to protest in defiance of Trump’s threats to invade & blockade all fuel shipments. Cubans are willing to resist and defend their homeland at all costs

Ukrainian Foreign Minister: President Zelensky is ready to meet with Putin to discuss the issues of territory and the Zaporizhzhia power plant.

Substation caught fire in Tushino of Moscow region

General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine claimed strike at the "Slaviansk Eko" oil refinery in Sloviansk-na-Kubani in Krasnodar Krai

Substation is on fire in Luhansk

Delcy Rodríguez: "Enough of Washington's orders to politicians in Venezuela"

Confirmed: Metrics show a significant decline to internet connectivity in Greenland with high impact to capital Nuuk. The incident comes amid reports of a city-wide power outage attributed by energy company Nukissiorfiit to an "accident"

Greenland's capital, Nuuk, was hit by a city-wide power outage. The cause is unknown

Several power pylons collapsed due to snow and strong winds, leaving Murmansk partially without power

Over 800 thousands customers are without electrical power, at least 2000 residential houses are without heat, 6000 more without heat partially, issues with water supply in Pechersky district and in the districts on the eastern bank of Dnipro city(Desniansky, Dniprovsky, Darnytsky)

Mexico weighs stopping oil shipments to Cuba amid concerns of Trump retaliation - Reuters

Russian LR2 tanker Progress (IMO 9306627), EU/UK-sanctioned and linked to the shadow fleet, is adrift off Algeria after deviating from established shipping lanes. Vessel declared “Not under command” while transporting ~730,000 bbl of Urals crude toward Suez. Recently reflagged to Russia, renamed multiple times, managed by St. Petersburg-based Legacy Marine LLC.nIncident coincides with increased French naval interdictions of shadow fleet tankers along the same corridor. While mechanical failure remains the primary assessment, the timing raises the possibility of external interference or deliberate damage

Falsely flagged Chariot Tide (ex Marabella Sun with IMO 9323376) is signalling "not under command" and drifting off Morocco. Perhaps having difficulties getting into port when it's "stateless" It's a day after EU and UK action against Grinch

New Treasury sanctions targeting Iran's shadow fleet

Blackout reported in Murmansk

Penzanefteproduct oil depot is on fire after suspected drone strike

US allows China to purchase Venezuelan oil but not at 'undercut' prices of Maduro days-official

Security Service of Ukraine published a video of an attack at the Tamanneftegaz oil terminal in Krasnodar Krai of Russia

Emmanuel Macron announces that the French Navy has seized "an oil tanker coming from Russia"

BBG: The US has no plans to offer security guarantees to oil companies that plan to operate in Venezuela, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Thursday. “We are not going to get involved in providing on the ground security for people in Venezuela,” Wright said during an interview with Bloomberg Television. “Oil and gas companies operate all around the world in all different settings, they’re well versed in those challenges.”

In the coming months, @NATO exercises and "other activities" are planned in the Arctic region - head of the Alliance's Military Committee

The Syrian Ministry of Energy denies reports circulating about a water cut-off in the city of Ain al-Arab (Kobani). The current outage is due to technical malfunctions in the Tishrin transformer, resulting from previous damage to the station caused by attacks on the energy infrastructure in the region by the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces)

Power transformer exploded in Kyiv

Standoff with Iran over inspections cannot go on forever, IAEA chief says

Explosions were reported at Starobesheve power station