Caracas [ Venezuela ], October 23 (ANI): Venezuela has deployed 5,000 Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles in "key air defense positions," President Nicolas Maduro claimed on Wednesday, amid growing tension over the United States' military presence in the Caribbean , CNN reported.

US President Donald Trump has said he is weighing military action inside Venezuela as part of a counter-drug trafficking campaign and a broader effort to weaken Maduro, a longtime foe of Washington.

"Any military force in the world knows the power of the Igla-S and Venezuela has no less than 5,000" of them, Maduro said during an event with military personnel broadcast by Venezolana de Television (VTV), CNN reported.

The Russian Igla-S missiles are short-range, low-altitude systems similar to Ameri

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