00:00The U.S. military has boarded a sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean following a pursuit that spanned thousands of miles from the Caribbean Sea.
00:08The Pentagon confirmed the Aquila II was intercepted after defying President Trump's maritime blockade of oil shipments to and from Venezuela.
00:17The vessel was one of several tankers that fled the Venezuelan coast in early January following the U.S. military raid to apprehend then-president Nicolas Maduro.
00:27Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated the military tracked the ship across multiple ocean basins, wowing that no one of those are getting away.
00:36The Aquila II is a Panemian flagged tanker already subject to sanctions for the shipment of illicit Russian oil.
00:43While seven other tankers have been formally seized by the Trump administration in recent months, officials say this ship is being held pending a decision on its ultimate fate.
00:53The operation is part of a broader effort to control Venezuela's petroleum distribution as Washington seeks to restructure the country's oil industry and economy.
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