While the president of the united states Donald Trump wants to force away his venezuelan counterpart Nicolás Maduro from power, all suggest more of a stronger bond is formed between Caracas and Moscow.
On Saturday, landed two Russian military aircraft in Venezuela. According to the venezuelan journalist Javier Mayorca be tons of equipment have been taken out of one of the plan, a storage plan, of the model Antonov AN-124. Out of the other plane, a Ilyushin IL-62, 99 soldiers have stepped out. On board the plane, there was also the Russian officer Vasily Tonkoshkurov, according to Mayorca.
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The Russian visit occurs three months after Russia and Venezuela held joint military exercises, also on venezuelan soil. Then described president Maduro the event as a sign of strengthening ties between the countries.
a situation in which the relationship between Venezuela and the united states become cooler. On Monday met US secretary of state Mike Pompeo his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. At the meeting, shall Pompeo have called on Russia to ”cease its okonstruktiva behavior” in Venezuela, writes Reuters.
Trumpadministrationen has previously targeted sanctions against the country in order to force Maduro from the presidency, and has also called on the venezuelan military leaders to abandon him.
Russia, on its part, has condemned the countries which expressed support for the venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who proclaimed himself interim president in January. Trumpadministrationen admitted Guaidó, prompting Maduro to break all diplomatic contact with the united states. A couple of weeks ago called the united states home all the remaining personnel at the embassy in Caracas.
