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The video shows two people who survived an initial attack were killed in a second strike, insisting that the vessel was hauling narcotics.
strikes on more than two dozen alleged drug boats have killed nearly 100 people since September.
Most Ukrainians say they oppose giving up any territory as part of a peace deal with Russia.
NPR's Polina Litvinova has details from Kyiv.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he will not release a video of a deadly airstrike on an alleged drug smuggling boat in the Caribbean.
The decision reverses President Trump's earlier comments that he would have no problem releasing the footage to the public.
More from NPR's Quill Lawrence.
President Trump is escalating U.S.
Trump says he's ordering a blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers into the South American nation.
He calls it the largest armada ever assembled in the history of the region.
The blockade comes after the U.S.
seized an oil tanker in the Caribbean, alleging that that vessel was being used to help fund drug trafficking.