Putin Hesitated To Criticize Trump For Overthrowing Maduro And Seizing Russian Tankers
12- 15.01.2026, 20:54
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The dictator of the RF continues to remain silent.
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin continues to remain silent on U.S. actions in Venezuela, with which Russia is bound by a "strategic comprehensive" partnership pact and in which it has invested nearly $20 billion over the past two decades, reports The Moscow Times.
In his first public appearance after the New Year's break, at a ceremony to present letters of credentials to foreign ambassadors in the Kremlin, Putin did not utter a word about the capture by the U.S. military of Nicolas Maduro, whom he has met twice in the past year and a half (in May-2025 and October-2024), calling Venezuela a "friend" and "reliable partner" of Russia.
Putin was also silent about the detentions of tankers of the Russian shadow fleet, which were used to transport Venezuelan oil. Not a word about Venezuela was said by Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov during his first post-New Year's Day briefing on Thursday.
Addressing the ambassadors, Putin said the situation on the international stage was "degenerating more and more." "The search for consensus and compromise solutions is increasingly being replaced by unilateral, and very dangerous, actions. And instead of dialog between states, there is a monologue of those who, by the right of the strong, consider it acceptable to dictate their will, teach life and give orders," he said.
The operation against Maduro, who faces life in prison in the United States on drug trafficking charges, has angered Moscow, but relations with Washington are more important to the Kremlin, a source familiar with the situation told Bloomberg.
The Kremlin does not consider the loss of a friendly regime in Venezuela a catastrophe, he said. Much more serious, the Bloomberg source emphasized, is the situation with Iran, which Trump has threatened with strikes to support protesters against the ayatollahs' rule. Iran is a major military partner of Russia and has supplied $3 billion worth of missiles and drones since the start of the war in Ukraine. But despite this, Russia is unlikely to intervene and is likely to limit itself to expressing public support, the source said.
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