“This morning, the United States carried out an act of armed aggression against Venezuela,” Russia’s Foreign Ministry wrote on January 3, as news emerged of the U.S. operation targeting various Venezuelan military facilities. “This development is extremely concerning and deserving of condemnation.” When the White House confirmed that U.S. special forces had captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and flown them to New York to stand trial for drug trafficking and other crimes, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that “we strongly urge the U.S. leadership to reconsider their position and release the legitimately elected president of a sovereign country and his spouse.”
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