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Even Demented Donnie’s Russian Puppet Master is p*$$3d off at him!

The Hill reports:

Russia harshly criticizes US attack on Venezuela, capture of Maduro

“ Russia is offering stark criticism of the U.S. military attack on Venezuela, which resulted in the capture of President Nicolas Maduro.
In response, Russia called for a full meeting of the United Nations Security Council.

“This morning, the United States carried out an act of armed aggression against Venezuela. This causes deep concern and condemnation,” Russia said in a statement from its Foreign Ministry.

“The pretexts cited to justify such actions are unfounded. Ideologized hostility has prevailed over practical pragmatism and over a willingness to build relations based on trust and predictability,” Russian officials wrote, nearly five years into the nation’s own war in Ukraine.

Russia, a key ally of the Maduro regime, said it was crucial to “prevent further escalation and to focus on finding a way out through dialogue.”

“We proceed from the understanding that all parties who may have claims against one another should seek solutions through dialogue-based approaches. We are ready to support them in this,” the ministry said.

“Latin America must remain a zone of peace, as it declared itself in 2014. Venezuela must be guaranteed the right to determine its own destiny without any destructive, especially military, interference from outside,” it wrote. “We reaffirm our solidarity with the Venezuelan people and our support for the course of its Bolivarian leadership aimed at defending the country’s national interests and sovereignty.”

Russia said its embassy in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital city, was operating normally and that it had no information about Russian citizens having been injured.

Attorney General Pam Bondi says Maduro has been charged with “Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy, Cocaine Importation Conspiracy, Possession of Machine guns and Destructive Devices, and Conspiracy to Possess Machineguns and Destructive Devices against the United States”.

“They will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts,” Bondi added in a post on social platform X.
Maduro had been in power in Venezuela since 2013. The Venezuelan communications ministry said in a statement that he had signed a declaration of emergency urging “all social and political forces” in the country to “activate mobilization plans and repudiate” the attack from the U.S.

The capture of Maduro came just days after the Venezuelan strongman said he was open to conducting negotiations with the U.S. regarding drug trafficking and oil. Maduro and Trump spoke over the phone in November.

The attack will almost certainly heighten tensions between the U.S. and Russia, two parties that have been working to find an end to the Russia-Ukraine war.

It has been taking place for more than a decade after Russia took over the Crimea and then launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Just this week, Trump held a meeting in Mar-a-Lago with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss a 20-point peace plan. He also spoke on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has widely been seen as an obstacle to settling the war.”
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A Chinese delegation was in Venezuela having just concluded a conference with Maduro the day before. There are no reports of the Chinese delegation (led by special envoy Qiu Xiaoqi) being captured, injured, or fleeing; they met with President Maduro on January 2, 2026, just hours before the U.S. military strikes and his capture on January 3, and as of the latest updates, they remain in Caracas amid the ongoing situation.