Aircraft and warships of the United States and the United Kingdom on the night of January 12 were struck by the military sites of the Hussite group in Yemen, who, with the support of Iran in the last year and a half, launched hunting for merchant vessels in the Red Sea and actually blocking maritime trade.
Russia , which is an ally of Iran, has already invited an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss a blow to the Yenko Hussites for January 12.
Russia has actually entered the Yemen Khussites.
"The US Aviations on Yemen are another example of Anglo-Saxon dissemination of the UN Security and Defense Resolutions and a complete disregard for international law in the name of escalation of the situation in the region for its destructive purposes," said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova in her telegram channel.
Russia made an unfair invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Iran supplies weapons for war against Ukraine and bombing peaceful cities.
Night blow
According to the statements of both Hussites and American and British sources, the strikes were primarily in the airfields, from where, according to the intelligence of the Allies, rockets and drones, as well as in the warehouses of weapons and radars, were launched.
According to Reuters interlocutors in the US administration, strokes have struck aircraft, ships and a submarine. CNN reported with reference to an anonymous US government representative, which was also used by Tomahawk winged missiles.
Representatives of the Hussites named several objects by which the US and Britain struck. The CNN TV company has brought these objects in a short list. It entered:
- Kakhlan military base in Saada province;
- Al-Dailami Air Base north of the capital of Yemen Sana;
- Khudadid's airport area on the Red Sea;
- Taise Airport and other facilities in the province of Taise in the Southwestern Emen region;
- ABBS airfield.
The US Air Force stated that during the operation against the Yemeni Hussites, on Friday night, more than 60 targets at 16 facilities: command points, weapons warehouses, production facilities and air defense radars.
The British Royal Air Force has announced that their planes had been struck for two purposes, and one of them was an airfield near Abbs. According to intelligence, winged rockets and drones were launched from it.
The second goal was the complex in the bath, from which, according to intelligence, reconnaissance and shock drones were launched.
The Britain's Air Force presents that four of their Typhoon aircraft, which flew from the base in Cyprus with airing in the air, participated in Yemen. They struck the paveway IV bombs with satellite and laser guidance.
Allies declare self -defense
The US President Joe Biden and the Prime Minister of British Rice Sunak made the statements immediately after the statements.
Biden said it was a response to Hussites attacks on merchant vessels in the Red Sea, and that the US with allies would not hesitate new blows if they needed.
Risha Sunnak stated that, from the point of view of Britain, the blow on Hussites was self -defense.
"In recent months, the Hussite militia has conducted a number of dangerous attacks on trade navigation in the Red Sea, creating a threat to British and other foreign vessels," Snak said.
"That is why we, together with the United States with the Non -military support of the Netherlands, Canada and Bahrain, have made limited, necessary and proportional actions for self -defense," the British Prime Minister said.
Saknak assured that British ships would continue to patrol the Red Sea as part of the Operation Proserity Guardian, protecting merchant vessels and urging Hussites to stop the attacks on them.
Coalition countries created to protect navigation in the Red Sea from the Hussites of Yemeni, made a joint statement on the strike of the United States and Britain on Hussites, which emphasized that they considered this blow to be a legal self -defense.
The statement of the United States and Britain, as well as Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand and South Korea stated that the Khussite military facilities were struck in accordance with the immutable right of states to individual and collective self -defense.
According to a statement, the strikes were struck by the Husites, through which they "threatened world trade and the lives of foreign sailors on one of the most important maritime routes."
In the future, according to the countries that have signed the statement, they will still seek de -escalation and restoration of stability in the Red Sea.
Coalition for the protection of navigation from Hussites was created in December. It was called the Operation Proserity Guardian. The coalition includes 22 countries, but real means of Hussites in the form of ships on the Red Sea and aviation in the region only have the US and Britain. Later, Denmark and Greece were promised one frigate.
In the US, in the region, in addition to bases in several countries, there is an aircraft carrier band led by the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, the British - one destroyer in the Red Sea, one on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula, and another goes to the region.
Husita warlike statements
"Everyone will pay for it. We will not stop the attack until you leave the region, and we will not stop trampling you until we see you humiliated. Yemen now gives Britain and America a lesson at sea," Musica Mayaur Abbot Abbot Abodul.
A little later, Abdulsalas announced that they had struck the US and Britain's ships in the Red Sea. There was no confirmation or refutation by allies by Friday morning.
"All the threats of Americans and the British were not frightened or frightened, and will not be forced to refuse to fulfill our duty-to support our brothers in gas," another member of the Hussite leadership Abdulkader Al-Morrtada wrote in the social networks. "
Houses, allies of Iran, intensified after the war of Israel with Hamas. At first, they tried to launch missiles and drones on Israel, then, since November, they began to attack merchant vessels.
They say that they are fighting the Jewish state in this way, but the objects of their attacks have repeatedly revealed vessels that have nothing to do with Israel.
Rockets and drones are received from Iran.
After strikes on Hussites, Russia has submitted a request for an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council on January 12.
On January 9, Hutivit tried to strike allies in the Red Sea, launching more than 20 winged and ballistic missiles and drones. All of them were knocked down by US and British ships and planes.
It was already the 27th strike of Hussites on warships and trading vessels since November 19. After him, London and Washington were announced that they did not exclude the possibility of a stroke.
The houses are controlled by the northwestern provinces of Yemen, including the San's capital.
Hussite's blow is a dilemma for the event
According to the Air Force Correspondent, Frank Gardner, USA, Britain and their allies were faced with a difficult choice: whether to strike in Yemen's rebels.
On the one hand, the event would show weakness if he did not, especially after numerous warnings.
On the other hand, there is a risk that in the eyes of the Middle East, the West, having dare to such a blow, will finally stand on the side of Israel in the conflict with Hamas.
And then the states of this region may face the fact that the already high tension will come to a potentially new, dangerous level.
At the same time, some observers have doubts about the effectiveness of hussels and bombs.
"For several years, they have been running a war with a coalition, led by Saudi Arabia, they have many years of experience of covering their equipment from the Saudi raids," the former US military attaché in Yemen Klemen in the BBC said.
