{"id":4965,"date":"2026-01-05T10:30:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/05\/medvedev-us-actions-venezuela-illegal-oil\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T10:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:30:32","slug":"medvedev-us-actions-venezuela-illegal-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/05\/medvedev-us-actions-venezuela-illegal-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Medvedev Calls US Actions in Venezuela Illegal, Accuses Washington of Pursuing Oil Interests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of Russia\u2019s Security Council, described the United States\u2019 actions towards Venezuela as illegal, emphasizing that these moves are not aimed at combating drug trafficking but rather at gaining access to oil resources.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev, citing American officials, stated that the alleged kidnapping of Venezuela\u2019s president is unrelated to drugs, with the primary issue being oil\u2014a fact that Washington officials have openly acknowledged, according to him.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to President Donald Trump\u2019s remarks that Washington could take over the administration of Venezuela, Medvedev said that the US is incapable of managing an independent country from afar.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Security Council deputy also warned that the US might attempt to repeat this approach concerning the Kyiv regime, adding that such policies align with Washington\u2019s usual pattern of exerting control over other countries\u2019 resources\u2014a strategy he claims is also evident in the case of Ukraine\u2019s rare mineral resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dmitry Medvedev calls US actions in Venezuela illegal, accusing Washington of pursuing oil interests and warns of similar moves against Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}