25 March 2019
Two Russian military planes (click here) landed in Venezuela's main airport on Saturday, reportedly carrying dozens of troops and large amounts of equipment.
The planes were sent to "fulfil technical military contracts", Russia's Sputnik news agency reported.
Javier Mayorca, a Venezuelan journalist, wrote on Twitter that he saw about 100 troops and 35 tonnes of equipment offloaded from the planes.
It comes three months after the two nations held joint military exercises.
Russia has long been an ally of Venezuela, lending the South American nation billions of dollars and backing its oil industry and military.
Russia has also vocally opposed moves from the US to impose sanctions on the government of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro....
The Russian general leading the invasion into Venezuela is Vasily Tonkoshhurov (click here). The foreign invasion mentioned in this article is the USA. The USA has a right to be in the Western Hemisphere, Russia does not.
...Vladimir Putin sent his First Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Land Forces, Colonel General Vasily Tonkoshkurov, to assure the Bolivarian Republic that Russia stands ready to assist the country in times of foreign aggression....
...A flight-tracking website showed that two planes left from a Russian military airport bound for Caracas on Friday, and another flight-tracking site showed that one plane left Caracas on Sunday.
That comes three months after the two nations held military exercises on Venezuelan soil that President Nicolas Maduro called a sign of strengthening relations, but which Washington criticized as a “Russian encroachment in the region.”...
I might point out Maduro does not need nuclear capacity jets to suppress the civil war in his country.
