HAVANA, April 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russia delivered on Friday 23,000 tons of wheat to Cuba as part of humanitarian aid.

"In the coming months other vessels will deliver the rest of the 150,000 tons to Cuba," Russia's ambassador to Cuba, Mikhail Kamynin, said.

Cuba's Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade Orlando Hernandez Guillen said: "I would like to thank the ambassador, the government and the Russian people for solidarity with the Cubans."

In September 2008, Russia sent four aircraft with humanitarian aid to Cuba after the country was badly affected by two tropical hurricanes, Gustav and Ike.