President Donald Trump said Saturday that a U.S. military strike destroyed a “very large drug-carrying submarine” in the Caribbean this week, killing two suspected narco-terrorists and capturing two others alive.

In a statement posted to Truth Social, Trump said the vessel was carrying “mostly fentanyl and other narcotics” along a well-known trafficking route toward the United States. He claimed the interdiction prevented “as many as 25,000 American overdose deaths.”

“It was my great honor to destroy a very large drug-carrying submarine,” Trump wrote. “U.S. Intelligence confirmed this vessel was loaded up with mostly Fentanyl. There were four known narcoterrorists on board. Two of the terrorists were killed. The two surviving terrorists are being returned to their countries of origin, Ecuador and Colombia, for detention and prosecution.”

Trump also released video footage of the strike, which he said occurred Thursday. Two survivors were rescued by the U.S. Navy after the attack and were being held aboard an American warship. Trump’s statement marked the first official acknowledgment of their identities and nationalities.

The incident was the sixth U.S. interdiction of a suspected drug-smuggling vessel since combat operations began in the Caribbean last month. The Pentagon has not disclosed the name of the ongoing operation.

Trump first mentioned the strike publicly during a White House meeting Friday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, telling reporters that “we attacked a submarine … built specifically for the transportation of massive amounts of drugs.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, speaking separately Friday, did not dispute reports of survivors and said further details would be released later.

Earlier this week, Trump confirmed that he had authorized CIA activity in the region, and U.S. Air Force B-52 bombers conducted a visible “show of force” near Venezuelan waters on Thursday.

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