Russia calls on US to immediately release Venezuelan President Maduro — diplomat

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Moscow urges Washington to immediately release Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Dmitry Lyubinsky said at a high-level meeting of the Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations in Geneva.

"We strongly call on Washington to immediately release Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife. We stand firm for respecting Venezuela’s sovereignty and peaceful settlement of all differences," he said.

He stressed that the US armed aggression against Venezuela on January 3, when more than 100 people were killed and the country’s legitimate president was abducted, "is a flagrant violation of international law, including the UN Charter."

"Extrajudicial reprisals in the Caribbean Sea, resulting from the sinking of ships by the Americans under the pretext of combating drug trafficking, are equally unacceptable," Lyubinsky emphasized.