{"id":40455,"date":"2025-11-24T13:40:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=40455"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T10:48:06","slug":"russia-expands-its-military-presence-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/russia-expands-its-military-presence-in-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"russia expands its military presence in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to media reports, over 120 russian military personnel are currently in Venezuela under the command of lieutenant general oleg makarevich, who in 2023 led the operation to destroy the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Dam. russian instructors are training infantry, special units, and UAV operators, while also actively working with Venezuelan intelligence and communications units, significantly enhancing the combat capabilities of Venezuelan forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f The deepening of military cooperation between Venezuela and moscow is taking place against the backdrop of increased U.S. activity in the Caribbean. Despite the technical backwardness of the Venezuelan army, Maduro\u2019s regime possesses a substantial arsenal of soviet and russian weaponry.<\/p>\n<p>moscow uses Venezuela as a platform to expand its influence in Latin America and as a lever of pressure on Washington. Military cooperation with Maduro\u2019s regime aligns with the kremlin\u2019s strategy to undermine U.S. positions in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to media reports, over 120 russian military personnel are currently in Venezuela under the command of lieutenant general oleg makarevich, who in 2023 led the operation to destroy the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Dam. russian instructors are training infantry, special units, and UAV operators, while also actively working with Venezuelan intelligence and communications units, significantly enhancing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}