
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov criticized the U.S.'s strike on a vessel off the Venezuelan coast, expressing "serious concern about Washington's escalating actions in the Caribbean Sea that are fraught with far-reaching consequences for the region."
"Russia strongly condemns the new strike by the U.S. armed forces on October 3 on a ship in international waters near Venezuela," Lavrov said in a phone conversation with his Venezuelan counterpart Yvan Gil, Reuters reported.