Ten F-22 Raptors from the 1st Fighter Wing departed Langley Air Force Base in Virginia for Puerto Rico on December 31, 2025, operating as #KICK, #CUBE81, and #ROGUE1 flights and supported by #RCH008 and #RCH047 tankers from McGuire Air Force Base, according to an X post by @CoronetEast shared over the past 90 minutes. In Venezuela, reports surfaced during the same reporting window of failures in the national banking platform, where pages failed to open and transfers did not arrive or bounced back, as stated in a Spanish-language post quoted by @UKR_token on X. These U.S. Air Force movements occur amid U.S.-Venezuela tensions, including President Donald Trump's declassification earlier on December 31 of a CIA operation inside Venezuela on December 24, according to U.S. officials cited in The Wall Street Journal. U.S. officials are considering ending pursuit of the sanctioned oil tanker Bella 1 in the Atlantic, tracked since December 21 after it refused boarding, per a CNN report shared earlier on December 31.
