Overview
- Deputy defense committee chair Alexei Zhuravlyov said there are no obstacles to providing Venezuela with Oreshnik or Kalibr missiles and suggested the United States could be surprised.
- Zhuravlyov called Russia a key military-technical partner to Caracas and said delivery details are classified.
- President Vladimir Putin has described Oreshnik as an intermediate-range missile capable of roughly Mach 10, and the Kremlin says it can carry nuclear warheads.
- Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova condemned recent U.S. maritime strikes as excessive use of force.
- No missile transfers have been independently confirmed, while the U.S. strikes have drawn bipartisan criticism and Trump says he has not decided on any land attacks.