A screenshot of the moment before a U.S. military strike on a vessel suspected of carrying narcotics through international waters near Venezuela on Oct. 21, 2025. @SecWar/Secretary of War Pete Hegseth via X
U.S. forces carried out a new lethal strike on a suspected drug boat operating in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Oct. 21, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has announced.
“Yesterday, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel being operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization and conducting narco-trafficking in the Eastern Pacific,” Hegseth wrote in an Oct. 22 social media post, along with footage of the attack.
