{"id":540477,"date":"2025-10-31T19:36:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T19:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/540477\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T19:36:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T19:36:19","slug":"venezuelas-maduro-seeks-russian-military-support-amid-u-s-buildup-in-caribbean-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/540477\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela\u2019s Maduro Seeks Russian Military Support Amid U.S. Buildup in Caribbean \u2013 Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuelan\u00a0President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin for military assistance as the U.S. concentrates forces in the Caribbean, The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2025\/10\/31\/russia-venezuela-oil-trump\/\" title=\"reported\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Friday, citing internal U.S. government documents it obtained.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Maduro requested help to strengthen Venezuela\u2019s air defense systems, including the delivery of 14 missile units and the restoration of several Russian-made Sukhoi Su-30MK2 fighter jets that Caracas previously purchased.<\/p>\n<p>He also asked for overhauls of eight engines and five radars as well as unspecified \u201clogistical support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maduro\u2019s written appeal to Putin was delivered by Venezuelan Transportation Minister Ram\u00f3n Celestino Vel\u00e1squez during a visit to Moscow in mid-October in which he met with his Russian counterpart, the documents said.<\/p>\n<p>The letter reportedly described the Su-30 jets as \u201cthe most important deterrent the Venezuelan National Government had when facing the threat of war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Venezuelan leader also sought a \u201cmedium-term financing plan of three years\u201d through Russian state defense conglomerate Rostec, though the amount was not specified.<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear whether Russia has responded to the request, The Washington Post noted.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela is one of Russia&#8217;s closest allies in South America, with Caracas having strengthened ties with Moscow under late socialist leader Hugo Ch\u00e1vez.<\/p>\n<p>Putin and Maduro this year\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2025\/05\/07\/putin-and-maduro-sign-strategic-partnership-treaty-in-moscow-a89010\" title=\"signed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed<\/a> a strategic partnership treaty in Moscow, the latest in a series of alliances Russia has forged since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>But The Washington Post cited observers as saying that Moscow, mired in the Ukraine war and seeking to strengthen ties with other regional partners, would have limited capability or interest in coming to Caracas&#8217; aid if the U.S. were to launch a full operation inside the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Venezuelan\u00a0President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin for military assistance as the U.S. concentrates forces in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[332,22713,49,8518],"class_list":{"0":"post-540477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-russia","9":"tag-south-america","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-venezuela"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115470466478085075","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}