The U.S. military successfully conducted a “kinetic strike” on a drug-carrying Tren de Aragua boat that departed from Venezuela, President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday.

The strike left 11 “narcoterrorists” dead and was conducted in international waters as the vessel headed to the United States, Trump said. “Please let this serve as notice to anybody even thinking about bringing drugs into the United States of America. BEWARE!” the president wrote.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote hours earlier that a strike had been conducted against a “drug vessel which had departed from Venezuela and was being operated by a designated narco-terrorist organization.”

Trump addressed the operation at a press conference earlier in the day, saying it had been struck moments earlier.

“Over the last few minutes, [we] literally shot out a boat, a drug-carrying boat,” Trump said Tuesday afternoon in the Oval Office. “A lot of drugs in that boat. And you’ll be seeing that, and you’ll be reading about that. It just happened moments ago.”

Trump said the operation was part of a broader push to combat drug trafficking originating from Venezuela, which has seen a stronger U.S. military presence. Last month, the Pentagon deployed at least three Navy destroyers and other military resources to the Caribbean near Venezuela as part of an effort to target Latin American drug cartels.

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has not directly commented on the strike yet. On Monday, he called the U.S. military presence in the Caribbean the “greatest threat that the continent has seen in the last 100 years” and vowed to declare a “republic in arms” if Venezuela was attacked.

Maduro has been facing increasing pressure from the Trump administration ever since Attorney General Pam Bondi doubled the bounty for his arrest to $50 million last month. Bondi accused Maduro of collaborating with foreign terrorist organizations, such as Tren de Aragua and the Sinaloa cartel, on drug trafficking. The Venezuelan leader faces multiple federal charges in the U.S.