The US military has hit a drug trafficking boat in the international waters off Venezuela’s coast, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said, APA reports.
"Earlier this morning, on President [of the US Donald] Trump's orders, I directed a lethal, kinetic strike on a narco-trafficking vessel affiliated with Designated Terrorist Organizations," he wrote on his X page. "The strike was conducted in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela while the vessel was transporting substantial amounts of narcotics - headed to America to poison our people."
According to Hegseth, four men aboard the vessel, identified as narco-terrorists by the US intelligence, were killed in the strike.
"These strikes will continue until the attacks on the American people are over," he emphasized.
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