The illegal intervention of the USA. The US in the affairs of Cuba aims to undermine the situation in the country, according to a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry. "The unprecedented strengthening of economic pressure and power on Havana, to which was added an aggressive energy blockade, put the ordinary citizens of the island on the brink of survival," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted in relation to the adoption of the UN General Assembly resolution "The necessity to end America's economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba." The department also emphasized that the illegal pressure against Cuba went far beyond "universal concepts of morality and ethics."