{"id":2520381,"date":"2025-12-12T04:50:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/putin-offers-solidarity-for-venezuelan-people-as-tensions-mount-between-maduro-and-us\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T04:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:53:10","slug":"putin-offers-solidarity-for-venezuelan-people-as-tensions-mount-between-maduro-and-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/putin-offers-solidarity-for-venezuelan-people-as-tensions-mount-between-maduro-and-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin offers \u2018solidarity\u2019 for Venezuelan people as tensions mount between Maduro and US"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fputin-offers-solidarity-for-venezuelan-people-as-tensions-mount-between-maduro-and-us%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2520381&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Russian President Vladimir putin has expressed solidarity with the Venezuelan people amid escalating tensions between Venezuela&#8217;s leader Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and the U.S. government under President donald Trump. Putin spoke with Maduro by phone,reaffirming Russia&#8217;s support for Venezuela&#8217;s sovereignty and national interests in the face of increasing external pressure. This comes shortly after U.S. forces seized an oil tanker near venezuela as part of intensified efforts to pressure Maduro, who faces narcoterrorism charges in the U.S. Maduro&#8217;s government condemned the seizure as theft and piracy.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has maintained a close alliance with Venezuela, providing various forms of <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >support including coronavirus vaccines<\/a> and assistance with cryptocurrency advancement. The two nations have also demonstrated military cooperation, with Russian bombers having been deployed to Venezuela and Russian naval ships visiting its ports. belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko,an ally of Putin,recently met with Venezuela&#8217;s ambassador to discuss cooperation,signaling ongoing diplomatic ties. Washington&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secretary-austin-refocuses-on-china-following-end-of-war-in-afghanistan\/\" title=\"Secretary Austin Refocuses On China Following End Of War In Afghanistan\">increased military presence<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-us-navys-littoral-combat-ship-destined-for-death-or-donation\/\" title=\"The US Navy\u2019s Littoral Combat Ship: Destined for Death or Donation?\">anti-drug operations<\/a> in the region continue to escalate tensions with Maduro&#8217;s government.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Putin offers &lsquo;solidarity&rsquo; for Venezuelan people as tensions mount between Maduro and US<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2442045\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>MOSCOW (AP) &mdash; Russian President&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/vladimir-putin\">Vladimir Putin<\/a>&nbsp;expressed &ldquo;solidarity with the Venezuelan people&rdquo; on Thursday amid&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-boat-strikes-caribbean-military-venezuela-timeline-2dd9d16f4f74d9dfa4aca76d3123678d\">growing tensions<\/a>&nbsp;between Venezuela&rsquo;s leader, Nicol&aacute;s Maduro, and the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin said in a statement that Putin spoke with Maduro by phone and reaffirmed his support for Venezuelan leader&rsquo;s policy of &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-aims-to-strip-trojan-horse-chinese-drones-from-all-levels-of-government\/\" title=\"Congress seeks to remove Chinese drones from all ... levels, labeling them as &#039;Trojan horses&#039;.\">protecting national interests<\/a> and sovereignty in the face of growing external pressure.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/premium\/3910313\/trump-show-business-homecoming-kennedy-center\/\">Trump&#8217;s show business homecoming<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/premium\/3912838\/noah-baumbach-paean-fallen-stars-jay-kelly-movie\/\">Noah Baumbach&#8217;s paean to fallen stars<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/premium\/3912553\/christmas-comes-early-beatles-completist-anthology-4\/\">Christmas comes early for the Beatles completist<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The call comes a day after&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-tanker-seized-venezuela-maduro-0a148ba01684fc6ce1a228dd276732c0\">American forces seized an oil tanker off<\/a>&nbsp;the coast of Venezuela, the latest tactic from U.S. President&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump&rsquo;s<\/a>&nbsp;administration to ramp up pressure on Maduro, who has been&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/caribbean-indictments-armed-forces-united-states-miami-d82797206561db03851e47df125c243f\">charged with narcoterrorism<\/a>&nbsp;in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>During&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/noem-house-hearing-immigration-threats-trump-3291f73f80c5619f70d439094393a3af\">testimony before Congress on Thursday<\/a>, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/noem-venezuela-tanker-drugs-33c28cded78df44207602668be768838\">linked the seizure of the vessel<\/a>&nbsp;to the Trump administration&rsquo;s anti-drug efforts in the region. The U.S. has built up its largest military presence in the region in decades and launched a series of&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-hegseth-pentagon-drug-boats-pacific-35a60ce3bc018e5f66c18b2d18b49c35\">deadly strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maduro has insisted the real purpose of the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/confirmed-chinese-troops-on-canadian-soil-during-military-exercises\/\" title=\"Confirmed: Chinese Troops on Canadian Soil During Military Exercises\">military operations<\/a> is to force him from office. Venezuela&rsquo;s government said the tanker seizure &ldquo;constitutes a blatant theft and an act of international piracy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The South American country&rsquo;s government said that Putin had &ldquo;categorically reaffirmed his support&rdquo; for Maduro in their call.<\/p>\n<p>It said in a statement that Putin had told Maduro that direct communication between Moscow and Caracas would &ldquo;remain permanently open&rdquo; and Russia would continue to support Venezuela &ldquo;in its struggle to assert its sovereignty, international law, and peace throughout Latin America.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Like his predecessor, the late President Hugo Ch&aacute;vez, Maduro has forged a close relationship with Russia, which has offered Venezuela help, ranging from coronavirus vaccines to the design of a cryptocurrency. In 2018, it also briefly dispatched a pair of nuclear-capable Tu-160 bombers to the airport outside Venezuela&rsquo;s capital amid soaring Russia-U.S. tensions.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, two Russian naval ships docked in the Venezuelan port of La Guaira after exercises in the Atlantic Ocean that Moscow said were to &ldquo;show the flag&rdquo; in remote, important regions.<\/p>\n<p>In Belarus, authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, a Putin ally, met with the Venezuelan ambassador to Russia, Jesus Rafael Salazar Vel&aacute;zquez, on Thursday, for the second time in just over two weeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3913868\/us-seized-oil-tanker-off-venezuelan-coast-trump\/\">US SEIZED OIL TANKER OFF VENEZUELAN COAST: TRUMP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Details of what was discussed were not revealed, but Belarus&rsquo; state news agency Belta quoted Lukashenko as saying that the diplomat was expected to discuss &ldquo;certain issues&rdquo; with Maduro after their first meeting on Nov. 25 and to travel to Belarus again, so that they could reach &ldquo;a certain decision.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>During the November meeting, Lukashenko extended an invitation to Maduro to visit Belarus, and said that he would try and find the time to visit Venezuela, too.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putin shows support for Venezuela amid US-Maduro tensions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2634,"featured_media":2520382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Maduro.webp?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[36612,3733,45479,50813],"class_list":["post-2520381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-maduro","tag-putin","tag-us-tensions","tag-venezuela-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Maduro.webp?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2634"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2520381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520385,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520381\/revisions\/2520385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2520382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}