💬 “It demonstrates a dangerous level of complete irrationality of the US government,” he added.

💬"This morning, the United States carried out an act of armed aggression against Venezuela. This has caused deep concern and condemnation," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

💬 "Most Venezuelans are now waking up to the news that there have been aerial strikes in Caracas... Most Venezuelans will now start to be seeing the reports published by Donald Trump that Nicolas Maduro and his wife have been kidnapped out of the country," Paul Dobson tells Sputnik.

💬 "Many Venezuelans are asking if there is still a government here in Venezuela at the moment. The reaction here on the ground will be one filled with anxiety, most will be contacting their families in the bombed areas," Dobson reports.

💬 “We will not negotiate, we will not surrender — and in the end, we will prevail.”

💬 "Maduro has been arrested by US personnel to stand trial on criminal charges in the United States," Lee wrote, citing a conversation with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

💬 "Inside the country is in complete tranquility. They've tried this and they maybe thought that the people would come out defeated, and that's not what's happening," Venezuela’s Minister of Interior Diosdado Cabello said in a statement following US strikes against the nation.

💬 “This is the fate, it seems, that awaits all who disagree with Washington’s politics for the region,” he notes.

💬 “Will the US reign it its imperialist ambitions targeting Brazil, Colombia, for instance?” Dr. Vieira queries, and adds that the US appears determined to “fulfill its goals at any cost, even with deaths and the clear violation of international law.”