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Pentagon seizes oil tanker that escaped from Venezuela in Indian Ocean
2026-02-15 22:30:17 / BOTA
The United States Pentagon announced today that it has detained an oil tanker in the Indian Ocean that tried to evade the US blockade imposed by President Donald Trump on ships placed under sanctions in the Caribbean.
The Panamanian-flagged tanker Veronica III "attempted to defy President Trump's blockade, hoping to escape. We pursued it from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, covered the distance, and stopped it," the Pentagon said in a post on the X platform.
Overnight, US forces conducted an operation to arrive and seize the Veronica III without incident in the area under the responsibility of INDOPACOM, the US military's command for the Indo-Pacific region. The post was accompanied by a video showing US soldiers boarding a helicopter and then boarding the ship.
According to the specialist website TankerTrackers, the Veronica III had set sail from Venezuela on January 3, the same day that US special forces arrested Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro in a spectacular operation. The ship was carrying about 1.9 million barrels of oil, an amount that represents Venezuela's production for two days.
Less than a week earlier, another tanker, the Aquila II, was located by Washington in the Indian Ocean and then similarly seized.
The Pentagon stressed: "International waters are not empty zones. By land, air or sea, we will find you and bring you to justice."
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