Moscow on Tuesday slammed as “illegal” sanctions announced by Washington against Venezuela’s state oil company aimed at crippling embattled President Nicolas Maduro’s power base. “The legitimate authorities of Venezuela have already labelled these sanctions illegal. We can wholly support this point of view,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists.
Senator Lindsey Graham, a member of Republican Party, said that US President Donald Trump had discussed with him the possibility to use military force in Venezuela already a couple of weeks ago. Venezuela is currently going through a political crisis, and the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, has repeatedly accused Washington ...
