By: Staff Writer
November 5, 2025
Russia promised to deliver Oreshnik and Kalibr Missiles to Venezuela to help it defend itself from potential US invasion.
Russia’s foreign ministry denounced on Saturday “excessive military force” by the United States in the Caribbean Sea deployed as part of a drive against drug trafficking and reaffirmed its support for Venezuela’s leaders.
“We firmly denounce the use of excessive military force in carrying out actions in anti-drugs operations,” foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said in a commentary on her ministry’s website.
Alexei Zhuravlyov, the First Deputy Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on Defense, stated that he does not rule out supplying Oreshnik ballistic missiles to Venezuela.
He claimed this in a comment to the Russian propaganda outlet Gazeta.Ru.
Zhuravlyov admitted that Russia continues to supply weapons to Caracas amid escalating tensions between Venezuela and the United States.
Dmitry PEskov, Kremlin spokesperson, told reporters that both countries have been in close working contact and it is Russia’s hope that tensions between the US and Venezuela remains calm.
Last week, a Russian transport aircraft of a type linked to the country’s military and former Wagner mercenary group has landed in the Venezuelan capital over the weekend, signaling heightened Russian interest in the Latin American country.
The Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft with the registration RA-78765 arrived in Caracas on Sunday after a two-day journey that took it from Russia via Armenia, Algeria, Morocco, Senegal and Mauritania to Latin America, flight records show. It appears the aircraft embarked on its trip from an airport in the greater Moscow area, with the transponder signal first being picked up shortly after takeoff.
A U.S. campaign in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific against what Washington says is the illegal drug trade has targeted at least 14 boats and killed 61 people.
The United States has built up a large military presence in the Caribbean in recent months, with fighter jets, warships and thousands of troops.