Two Tu-160 Russian bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons have landed in Venezuela in a Russian show of support for the government of socialist President Nicolás Maduro.

The long-range strategic bombers landed at Simón Bolívar airport outside of the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, along with two other Russian planes.

The planes arrival comes just days after President Maduro met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

Venezuelan President Maduro has said that there was an attempt under way “directly coordinated from the White House to disturb democratic life in Venezuela and to try to launch a coup d’etat against the constitutional, democratic and free government of our country”.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said this amounted to two corrupt governments squandering public funds. He tweeted “#Russia‘s government has sent bombers halfway around the world to #Venezuela. The Russian and Venezuelan people should see this for what it is: two corrupt governments squandering public funds, and squelching liberty and freedom while their people suffer.”

US defense department spokesman Col Rob Manning also noted the US recently deployed a navy hospital ship to Latin America to offer medical support to the millions of Venezuelans who have fled hyperinflation and shortages of goods and medicine in their home country since 2014.

He also contrasted this with Russia, whose approach to the man-made disaster in Venezuela is to send bomber aircraft instead of humanitarian assistance.

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