Cuban authorities have condemned a U.S. military strike on Venezuela, calling for an immediate international response to defend the region.

President Miguel Díaz-Canel described the early-morning attacks on Caracas as a “criminal attack,” declaring that “our #ZonaDePaz is being brutally assaulted.” His statement, posted on social media platform X, aligns with a broader regional condemnation of what Cuba frames as direct U.S. military aggression against Venezuelan territory.

“State terrorism against the brave Venezuelan people and against Our America,” the Cuban president added, emphasizing Havana’s solidarity with regional efforts to resist external interventions.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez reinforced this position, stating: “The bombings and military actions against Caracas and other locations in the country are cowardly acts against a nation that has not attacked the U.S. or any other country.” Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz also warned that “the attacks against Caracas and other locations demand urgent mobilization by the international community to defend Latin America and the Caribbean as a #ZoneOfPeace.”

The Venezuelan government confirmed what it described as a “serious U.S. military aggression” targeting both civilian and military areas across Miranda, Aragua, La Guaira, and Caracas. Authorities ordered the “immediate deployment of the Command for Comprehensive National Defense and of the Direction Organs for Comprehensive Defense in all states and municipalities of the country.” President Nicolás Maduro enacted a decree declaring a state of “external commotion,” allowing the mobilization of armed forces and immediate defensive operations to protect national territory.

Detonations were reported during the early hours amid heightened tensions with the United States, whose military operations in the Caribbean reportedly included the destruction of vessels and threats to extend actions onto Venezuelan soil.