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In a significant shift in tone since the US special forces abducted leader Nicolas Maduro shortly after a military operation, interim president Delcy Rodriguez declared she is ready to work with the US on Venezuela’s future.

We make it our top priority to achieve a just and respectful relationship between the US and Venezuela, Rodriguez wrote on Sunday on Telegram.

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We ask the US government to work together on a cooperation plan aimed at shared development, she continued.

After Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were detained in the most well-known and risky US military operation since the US Navy’s SEAL team killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a safe house in Pakistan’s Abbottabad in 2011, the Venezuelan Supreme Court appointed Rodriguez interim leader.

Rodriguez blasted US actions as “an atrocity that violates international law” in a televised address on Saturday, insisting that “President Nicolas Maduro is the only president of Venezuela.”

Trump had previously suggested in the days following Maduro’s arrest that US officials were in contact with her and that she was willing to cooperate, but Rodriguez’s televised remarks sparked a rift with him.

Trump quickly changed his tone from calling Rodriguez “gracious” to directly threat her after Rodriguez described his administration as a group of “extremists” on television.

In an interview early on Sunday, Trump said, “She will pay a very large price, probably more than Maduro,” adding that Trump would do it.

The US president reiterated that the US was now “in charge,” and that additional strikes against Venezuela could be launched. He also said that he would not rule out putting “boots on the ground” there.

Trump’s actions and stance, which have sparked protests in the US and around the world, contradict both his previous criticism of regime change and his election promise of an “America First” stance and keeping the nation out of endless wars.

Rodriguez’s statement on Sunday, “Headed by a commission to demand the release of Maduro and Flores from US detention,” in which the Venezuelan leader is accused of “narcoterrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machineguns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machineguns and destructive devices,” was followed by another statement.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil and her brother Jorge, the nation’s president, will co-chair the commission.

In the wake of the US invasion of Panama, Maduro faces a similar fate as Manuel Noriega, who was imprisoned in his nation’s Vatican embassy in 1990 after hiding out in his country.

Prior to receiving a 40-year prison sentence, Noriega, a staunch US ally, also faced similar charges of “racketeering, drug smuggling, and money laundering.” His sentence was commuted to 17 years for good behavior, but he later received additional sentences in Panama and were imprisoned until he passed away in 2017.

On Monday, Maduro will show up in a federal court in New York.

According to officials from the Trump administration, the seizure is intended to hold Maduro accountable for the 2020 criminal charges against him for conspiring to commit narco-terrorism.

Donald Trump, the president of the United States, refutes claims that Ukraine attacked Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residence as the conflict rages on, saying he did not “believe that strike occurred” after initially accepting the Kremlin’s account on its face.

No one was aware at the time whether a report about the alleged incident was accurate, Trump, on Air Force One, said to reporters on Sunday night. He added that “something” happened close to Putin’s residence, but that Ukraine did not, according to US officials, believe it was being targeted by it.

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Ukraine immediately denied involvement, accusing Russia of conducting a false-flag operation to stifle peace negotiations. Moscow responded right away by saying that the incident would stifle its commitment to peace negotiations.

Following the publication of a video of a downed drone that Kyiv claimed had launched at Putin’s residence in the Novgorod region, reports of the attack surfaced last week.

Putin was not at the residence at the time, and the residence was not damaged, according to the ministry.

Along with Ukraine, its Western allies fiercely disagreed about the legitimacy of the attack.

Russia and Ukraine are negotiating a ceasefire agreement to put an end to the nearly four-year conflict, according to the claim made.

Following a meeting with European leaders in France on Tuesday, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, said the ceasefire plan was “90 percent ready.” The main concerns remain about ceding land that was or was taken over during a war.

2026 is the first time a civilian has died in Kyiv.

The first casualties in the capital of 2026 were reported by Ukrainian authorities on Monday morning that two people had died in an overnight Russian attack on the Kyiv region.

A medical facility in Kyiv’s northern sector, where an inpatient ward was operating, was set on fire by the Russian attack, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.

A body was discovered inside the building after the fire was extinguished, according to the service. According to the service’s announcement on Telegram, a woman was also hurt, and 25 people were evacuated.

According to Governor Mykola Kalashnyk on Telegram, a man in his 70s was killed in the Fastiv district, southwest of the capital, while critical infrastructure was also damaged and destroyed in the Kyiv region.

Kalashnyk added that some areas of the area remain without power.