Let’s Track the Anatoly Kolodkin, the Russian Ship Headed for Cuba

A Russian ship is attempting to break America’s embargo on oil to Cuba. Let’s track the ship as it makes its way to the island and see if we can predict whether Cuba will continue warming up their relationship with the United States or stick with their old pals, the Russians. Watch this video all the way to the end and I’ll tell you how you can do maritime intelligence. You’ll learn a new skill, have a ton of fun. It’ll be awesome. Guys, it’s time for some game theory. As I’ve mentioned in past videos, the Trump administration is putting crushing pressure on Russia’s proxies around the world. First, the United States armed forces has basically went up and shoplifted the illegitimate president of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro Moros, with zero casualties and delivered him to the Southern District of New York to face drug trafficking charges.

Then, the United States attacked Iran with Israel. Further, the US has attempted to cut off all oil deliveries to Cuba’s government since last year, resulting in blackouts as we attempt to negotiate the end of the Castro legacy regime. On January 29th, 2026, President Trump signed Executive Order 14380, declaring a , 3 secondsnational emergency where Cuba was classified as an imminent threat. Mexico and other countries were told that if they shipped oil to Cuba’s government, , 12 secondsnot their people, the government, they would face stiff tariffs. The US armed forces have seized even before the Maduro operation a number of vessels , 20 secondseither selling Venezuelan oil or explicitly Cubabound.

On December 10th, 2025, uh, US Southern Command seized a Venezuelan oil tanker called the , 29 secondsSkipper. On January 7th, 2026, the tanker M. Sophia was seized, uh, also known as the Yunara Glory. It was , 37 secondssanctioned by the US Treasury, a Chinese-owned ship repeatedly involved with the shipping the shipment of Iranian, Venezuela, and Russian oil. On , 45 secondsJanuary 9th, a couple days later, the tanker Oolina was seized in a joint operation in the Caribbean. US Marines and Navy conducted a pre-dawn boarding. , 52 secondsAdditional seizures included the Veronica on January 15th and the Sajittita on January 21st. The American policy here was to halt Venezuelan oil , 2 secondsflows to Cuba.

Previously, 40 to 50,000 barrels a day subsidized shipments and assert control over Venezuelan oil , 10 secondsrevenues post Maduro. So, for those of you who are watching us greenlight the sale of Venezuelan or oil oil or even , 17 secondsRussian oil um or even Iranian oil, we want this oil in the world market, but we want to control where the money goes. , 25 secondsWe want to make sure that it doesn’t feed these these evil regimes anymore. , 29 secondsThat’s the policy anyhow. So now we have two Russian tankers, the Anatoli Kudkin and the seahorse trying to get through , 37 secondsto the Cuban government in a move that feels a lot like a plot point from the Dukes of Hazard. So you and me, let’s track the Anatoli Koludkin.

We’re going , 46 secondsto go to an open-source site, mariner.com. , 49 secondsThey have paid plans where where you can get everything that from a ship’s whole history of routes and other good stuff. , 55 secondsBut we’re just going to use the search function and track the IMO number, the International Maritime Organization number, which in this case is 9610808. , 7 secondsI have that all locked up. So I’m just going to click on that. Boop boop. Now so you can read it over on on the left , 16 secondsside. It says departure from Vadinar, India. That’s a part of India. There’s a big port there where they take in oil that’s facing the Gulf of Oman and the , 25 secondsPersian Gulf. And it’s headed for Atlantis with a reported ETA of March 25th.

That’s tomorrow as I record this , 34 secondsat noon. Headed for Atlantis. I got to say this is this is why even though Russia’s government is frequently very , 41 secondsevil, I can’t help but like them and the stuff they do cuz they do things at incredibly tense times that are reminiscent of the Cuban missile crisis. , 50 secondsThey will say that their ship is heading for Atlantis or Narnia or wherever. , 54 secondsThings that are just legitimately hilarious. They have a sense of humor about themselves, which I guess is probably very good. So, um we’ve got this. , 5 secondsWe look uh it’s on the map here, the Colotkin northeast of the Saraso Sea and it is , 13 secondsheaded in a westerly direction at 10.8 nautical miles an hour, which is not too fast, but about what you would imagine , 22 secondsfor an oil tanker.

And so they’re going to be to Atlantis by tomorrow noon. Uh , 29 secondsthat’s about 26 hours away from now as I um as I record this. So it’s we can see , 37 secondsit is headed towards Cuba, but it won’t be there anytime soon. , 45 secondsSo all right guys, now now we know where it is. Now we have a little more information about that. Let’s let’s see what everybody does. The US armed forces , 52 secondshave a habit of pre-dawn boarding ships like this. So maybe they’ll just take the ship. But as I said, I don’t think this is a shipment of oil as much as it is a loyalty test from Moscow. So guys, what’s the Cuban government going to do? , 4 secondsWill they welcome the ship? Will they will they welcome help from Russia?

Uh or will they turn back towards their new buddies, the United States? They just , 13 secondslet the FBI in the other day. That’s something that bespeaks a warming of relations here. Uh but we’re going to focus on the ship here. You have the , 22 secondstools now. Keep an eye out and tell me in the comments how this is all going.