Overview
- U.S. troops launched from the carrier USS Gerald R. Ford and boarded the tanker Veronica before dawn, the Pentagon said.
- Officials did not specify the Veronica’s flag and described such ships as part of opaque networks used to evade sanctions on Venezuelan oil.
- The action marks the sixth interdiction in a little over a month as Washington steps up maritime enforcement in the Caribbean.
- Separately, the Russian-flagged Marinera, previously seized by the United States, entered U.K. waters under a U.S. Coast Guard escort for resupply, the British government said.
- The latest boarding came hours before President Donald Trump’s meeting in Washington with opposition leader María Corina Machado, and Moscow and Beijing continue to criticize the seizures.