Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Moscow has no plans to send troops to shore up Venezuela's embattled leader Nicolas Maduro, Al Jazeera reports.
Putin: Russia Has No Plans to Send Troops to Venezuela
STEPANAKERT, JUNE 7, ARTSAKHPRESS: Speaking in St Petersburg, Putin also warned that a United States military intervention in Venezuela would be a "catastrophe", claiming even Washington's allies did not support such a course of action.
"We aren't building any military bases there [Venezuela], we aren't sending troops there, we have never done that," Putin said when asked about a recent tweet by Donald Trump, in which the US president said Moscow had told Washington it had pulled its personnel out of Venezuela.
