NEW YORK, December 30. /TASS/. The US military has conducted a strike on a vessel allegedly carrying drugs in the Pacific Ocean, the US Southern Command said in an X post.

"Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Two male narco-terrorists were killed," the post reads.

The strike was carried out by the Joint Task Force Southern Spear at the direction of Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth.