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Russia connected Thursday (December 18, 2025) called connected U.S. President Donald Trump's medication not to marque a "fatal mistake" successful the Venezuela crisis, calling for restraint and saying it was successful "constant contact" with its state Caracas.
Mr. Trump ordered a blockade of sanctioned lipid tankers successful Venezuela this week, marking a caller escalation betwixt Washington and the South American state led by leftist authoritarian Nicolas Maduro.
Venezuela has insisted its crude lipid exports were not impacted by the announcement, showing defiance.
Mr. Maduro is simply a person of the Kremlin's and has been a regular impermanent successful Moscow for years.
Moscow's Foreign Ministry said it hoped the White House would "not let a fatal mistake and volition refrain from further sliding into a concern that threatens unpredictable consequences for the full Western hemisphere."
It called for a "de-escalation" and expressed enactment for Maduro's government. The Kremlin said it was successful "constant contact" with its "ally and partner" Venezuela.
"We, of course, telephone connected each countries of the portion to amusement restraint successful bid to debar immoderate unpredictable improvement successful the situation," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.
It is unclear however the blockade volition play out, with U.S. warships successful the Caribbean.
In his announcement earlier this week, Mr. Trump besides said, "Venezuela is wholly surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled successful the History of South America" — raising fears of a imaginable U.S. intervention.
The Kremlin has, successful the past, helped prop up Venezuela's struggling economy. Russian person Vladimir Putin reaffirmed his enactment to Maduro successful a telephone telephone earlier this month.
