The United States launched a large-scale strike on Venezuela, captured its president, Nicolás Maduro, and flew him out of the country, President Trump said, according to Washington Post.

The United States launched a “large scale strike” on Venezuela, captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife and flew them out of the country, President Donald Trump said in a social media post early Saturday. Overnight, explosions shook multiple locations across Caracas, including at key military facilities, and aircraft were seen flying over the Venezuelan capital.

Trump said that the Maduros were placed on a ship, the USS Iwo Jima, to be taken to New York, and that they were removed from Venezuela by helicopter. “They’ll be heading in to New York,” the president told “Fox & Friends.”

Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez said earlier Saturday that the government did not know where Maduro or first lady Cilia Flores were and demanded “immediate proof of life.” The country’s interior minister, Diosdado Cabello, described the U.S. attack as “cowardly.”

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement Saturday morning that Maduro and his wife were facing federal charges in the Southern District of New York, where Maduro was indicted in March 2020 on narco-terrorism charges. Trump has accused him of heading a narco-trafficking gang that is flooding the U.S. with illicit drugs — a claim Maduro denies.

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