Venezuela accused the United States of hitting residential areas in a wave of strikes early today, and announced a major deployment of military resources.

Venezuelan defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez shared on social media that the invading US forces have desecrated their soil, going so far as to strike, using missiles and rockets fired from their combat helicopters on residential areas populated by civilians.

He added that more explosions were later recorded in other cities across the country, with Several areas of the capital left without electricity.