Trump said Russia should withdraw its military from Venezuela: Moscow’s reaction

President Donald Trump called on Moscow to withdraw its military from Venezuela and said that he would do everything to achieve this.

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“Russia has to get out of there,” Trump told reporters at the White House, where he hosted Fabiana Rosales, the wife of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó. When asked how this could be achieved, Trump replied: “We'll see. All options are possible."

According to Air force, Trump and Vice President Mike Pence met with Rosales to express support for her husband, who declared himself acting president in January.

“The United States views the arrival of Russian warplanes in Venezuela this week as a clear provocation,” Pence told reporters.

“We call on Russia to stop all support for the Maduro regime and side with Juan Guaidó,” the vice president said.

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Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, in response to Trump’s words, said that the American president should fulfill his promises to withdraw troops from Syria before giving advice to Russia. Zakharova, RIA Novosti reports, compared Trump to a cowboy in the Louvre and said that the United States is bringing another world disorder closer with “chaotic steps and unpredictable behavior.”

The head of the international committee of the Federation Council, Konstantin Kosachev, said that Trump is trying to impudently interfere in the bilateral relations of two sovereign states.

“This is all being done within the framework of normal relations with the legitimate government,” Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said on Thursday.

What is known about the Russian military in Venezuela

In Venezuela, there are Russian military, confirmed the Russian Foreign Ministry. The ministry said that the military are in Venezuela legally, without specifying what they do there. The US authorities believe that Russian cyber security experts have arrived in the country. BBC Russian Service generalized media information about the Russian military in Venezuela.

The arrival at Caracas airport of two Russian military aircraft became known on Sunday from local media reports. Agency RIA News then reported this with reference to an anonymous source, who explained their arrival by the implementation of long-standing contracts for military-technical cooperation.

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Agency TASS citing the Peruvian newspaper El Comercio reported that An-124 and Il-62 planes with 99 military personnel and 35 tons of cargo on board arrived at Caracas airport. According to the newspaper, the military is commanded by the head of the main organizational and mobilization department of the General Staff, Colonel General Vasily Tonkoshkurov. On the way to Venezuela, the planes made two landings - in Damascus and Dakar, the publication noted.

According to the FlightPix resource, the Il-62 spotted in Caracas is operated by the Russian Aerospace Forces, and its home airport is Samara Kurumoch.

On Monday, the official US State Department condemned sending the military to Venezuela and called it a reckless escalation of the situation in the country.

Venezuela’s economy is experiencing a sixth year of recession. With inflation of over a million percent, Venezuela last year took a place in history alongside the Weimar Republic of 1920's and Zimbabwe's 2000's.

In January, the leader of the Venezuelan opposition, Juan Guaydo объявил yourself as interim president of the country. The United States and many other countries are more do not recognize the legitimacy of incumbent President Nicolas Maduro and support Guaido.

In March in the country power outages started. Maduro says the US is responsible for the blackout. The authorities stated that the cause of the accident at the country's largest hydroelectric power station, El Ghuri, which began the blackout on March 7, was a cyber attack organized from the United States.

The US government believes that there are cyber security experts among the military who arrived in Venezuela, said Tuesday evening, citing a source Reuters. American authorities, according to the agency, believe that Moscow’s main task is to help Nicolas Maduro stay in power.

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The Organization of American States also opposed the presence of the Russian military in Venezuela. “The General Secretariat rejects the recent military penetration of Russia into Venezuelan territory, which was not authorized by the National Assembly, as required by the Venezuelan Constitution,” the OAS statement said.

The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Maria Zakharova, on Tuesday evening confirmed that there are Russian military in Venezuela. According to her, the location of Russian specialists in Venezuela is regulated by an agreement between Moscow and Caracas on military-technical cooperation, which the parties signed in 2001.

According to Rider, the US Secretary of State, in a telephone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, said that Washington would not quietly observe Moscow’s support for Maduro.

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