US President Donald Trump announced an attack on a ship allegedly smuggling drugs off the coast of Venezuela.
Trump, on his page on the American social network Truth Social, shared written and visual details of the attack on a ship that, according to intelligence reports, was carrying… drugs.
Stressing that the attack was carried out on his orders, Trump said that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this morning ordered a lethal kinetic strike against a drug smuggling vessel off Venezuela in the US Southern Command area of responsibility linked to foreign terrorist activities. organizations.
Intelligence confirmed the ship was involved in drug smuggling, had ties to illegal “narco-terrorists” and was traveling along a route known to be used by that organization, he said.
Trump said the attack took place in international waters, noting that six people on board the ship were killed.
In The 33-second video released by Trump shows flames rising from the attack on the fast-moving vessel.
Trump ordered a naval group consisting of a submarine and 7 warships to be sent to the Caribbean region, off the coast of Venezuela, and US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the US Army was ready to operations in Venezuela, including regime change.
The fact that the US has targeted some ships off the coast of Venezuela under the pretext of “drug trafficking” has drawn criticism from both the Venezuelan government and the international community. In their opinion, these attacks “contradict international law.”