2026年2月16日 / 美国东部时间上午5:19 / 美联社
华盛顿—五角大楼周日表示，美军在追踪一艘从加勒比海出发的船只后，在印度洋登上了另一艘受制裁的油轮，以打击与委内瑞拉有关的非法石油运输。
多年来，委内瑞拉的石油一直面临美国制裁，其依靠一支由挂假旗油轮组成的”影子船队”将原油走私进全球供应链。特朗普总统于去年12月下令对受制裁油轮实施隔离，以施压当时的总统尼可拉斯·马杜罗；而马杜罗在今年1月美国军事行动中被逮捕。
突袭行动后，数艘油轮逃离委内瑞拉海岸，包括此次在印度洋被登船的船只。国防部在X平台上发文称，美军登上了”维罗妮卡三世”号（Veronica III），并执行了”登临、海上拦截和登船”行动。
五角大楼表示：”该船试图违抗特朗普总统的隔离令，希望偷偷溜走。我们从加勒比海追踪到印度洋，缩小距离并最终拦截了它。”
五角大楼在社交媒体发布的视频显示美军登船过程：
根据美国财政部海外资产控制办公室网站信息，”维罗妮卡三世”号是一艘悬挂巴拿马国旗的船只，因伊朗相关制裁被列入制裁名单。巴拿马海事局周日简短声明称，该船已不再在巴拿马注册，于2024年12月被注销。
TankerTrackers.com周日在X平台发文称，该船1月3日（马杜罗被捕当天）从委内瑞拉出发，载有近200万桶原油和燃料油。
该组织表示：”自2023年以来，它一直参与俄罗斯、伊朗和委内瑞拉的石油运输。”
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TankerTrackers.com联合创始人萨米尔·马丹尼（Samir Madani）今年1月对美联社表示，其组织通过卫星图像和水面照片记录了至少16艘油轮违反隔离令离开委内瑞拉海岸的行为。
特朗普政府将扣押油轮作为全面控制委内瑞拉石油的一部分。国防部在文中未明确”维罗妮卡三世”号是否被正式扣押并交由美方控制，随后在电子邮件中告知美联社除上述声明外无更多信息提供。
上周，美军在印度洋登上过另一艘油轮”Aquila II”。一名不愿具名的国防部官员上周透露，该船正被扣留，其最终处置权由美国决定。
U.S. military boards another oil tanker after tracking it from Caribbean
February 16, 2026 / 5:19 AM EST / AP
Washington— U.S. military forces boarded another sanctioned tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the vessel from the Caribbean Sea in an effort to target illicit oil connected to Venezuela, the Pentagon said Sunday.
Venezuela had faced U.S. sanctions on its oil for several years, relying on a shadow fleet of falsely flagged tankers to smuggle crude into global supply chains. President Trump ordered a quarantine of sanctioned tankers in December to pressure then-President Nicolás Maduro before Maduro was apprehended in January during an American military operation.
Several tankers fled the Venezuelan coast in the wake of the raid, including the ship that was boarded in the Indian Ocean. The Defense Department said in a post on X that U.S. forces boarded the Veronica III, conducting “a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding.”
“The vessel tried to defy President Trump’s quarantine – hoping to slip away,” the Pentagon said. “We tracked it from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, closed the distance, and shut it down.”
Video posted on social media by the Pentagon shows U.S. troops boarding the tanker:
The Veronica III is a Panamanian-flagged vessel under U.S. sanctions related to Iran, according to the website of the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. The Panama Maritime Authority said Sunday in a brief statement that the ship was no longer registered there and had been canceled in December 2024.
The Veronica III left Venezuela on Jan. 3, the same day as Maduro’s capture, with nearly 2 million barrels of crude and fuel oil, TankerTrackers.com posted Sunday on X.
“Since 2023, she’s been involved with Russian, Iranian and Venezuelan oil,” the organization said.
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Samir Madani, co-founder of TankerTrackers.com, told The Associated Press in January that his organization used satellite imagery and surface-level photos to document that at least 16 tankers left the Venezuelan coast in contravention of the quarantine.
The Trump administration has been seizing tankers as part of its broader efforts to take control of the Venezuela’s oil. The Pentagon did not say in the post whether the Veronica III was formally seized and placed under U.S. control, and later told the AP in an email that it had no additional information to provide beyond that post.
Last week, the U.S. military boarded a different tanker in the Indian Ocean, the Aquila II. The ship was being held while its ultimate fate was decided by the United States, according to a defense official who spoke last week on condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing decision-making.
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