Venezuela’s Gov­ern­ment has con­demned what it de­scribed as Unit­ed States mil­i­tary at­tacks on Cara­cas and oth­er re­gions ear­ly on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

In a state­ment is­sued by the Venezue­lan Em­bassy in Trinidad and To­ba­go, the Bo­li­var­i­an Re­pub­lic of Venezuela said it “re­jects, re­pu­di­ates, and de­nounces be­fore the in­ter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty the ex­treme­ly se­ri­ous mil­i­tary ag­gres­sion per­pe­trat­ed by the cur­rent gov­ern­ment of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca against Venezue­lan ter­ri­to­ry and pop­u­la­tion”.

The state­ment said the at­tacks tar­get­ed civil­ian and mil­i­tary lo­ca­tions in Cara­cas, as well as the Venezue­lan states of Mi­ran­da, Aragua, and La Guaira.