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Against Trump: Putin assures Maduro of further support
Updated 12/11/2025 – 6:45 p.mReading time: 7 minutes
Putin wants to support Venezuela. The US President comments on the future of CNN. All developments in the news blog.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged his continued support to his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolás Maduro amid tensions between Venezuela and the United States. In view of the “growing pressure from outside,” Putin “expressed his solidarity with the Venezuelan people and reiterated his support for the policies” of the Venezuelan government in a phone call with Maduro, the Kremlin said on Thursday. The United States was not directly mentioned in the statement.
According to the Kremlin, Putin and Maduro also agreed to advance joint projects, particularly in the areas of economics, energy and trade. In May, the two presidents signed a cooperation agreement to strengthen bilateral relations.
The USA took control of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday. According to the US government, the tanker was used to transport “sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran.” Venezuela strongly condemned the incident and called it “theft.” US President Donald Trump said in the White House on Wednesday that the seized tanker was the “largest ever seized.” There are also “other things going on,” the US President added. But he did not give any details.
US President Donald Trump wants the news channel CNN to get a new owner as part of the takeover of the media group Warner Bros. Discovery. He thinks it needs to be guaranteed that CNN will be sold either together with the rest of the group or separately, Trump said at a meeting in Washington.
The president seemed to equate ownership and management: He didn’t think the people who now ran the company and CNN should be allowed to continue. The channel, which often denounces falsehoods told by Trump and gives voice to politicians with different views, spreads “poison” and “lies,” he claimed.
The streaming service Netflix recently submitted a takeover offer for Warner Bros., but this did not apply to the TV division with the news channel CNN. Competitor Paramount Skydance had outbid the offer. Paramount Skydance is owned by film producer David Ellison, the son of Trump supporter Larry Ellison.
