On October 3, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said that the US had carried out a strike on an alleged drug trafficking vessel in the area of responsibility of the US Southern Command off the Venezuelan coast, resulting in the deaths of four "narco-terrorists."
"The two ministers expressed grave concern over Washington's increasingly escalatory actions in the Caribbean Sea, which are fraught with far-reaching consequences for the entire region," the statement read.
Russia strongly condemns the strike carried out by the US military on October 3 against a vessel in international waters off the Venezuelan coast, the ministry said.