US-British Strikes in Yemen Have Nothing to Do With Self-Defense, Russia's UN Envoy Says
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According to local government sources, a total of 23 airstrikes were conducted by the United States and the United Kingdom military on Friday, targeting various parts of Yemen. These included the country's capital Sanaa, as well as the cities of Al Hudaydah, Taizz, and Sadah. The US later conducted follow-up strikes.
The US and British strikes on Yemen have nothing to do with the exercise of the right to self-defense in accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter, Russia's permanent representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzya said.
Other statements by Nebenzya at a meeting of the UN Security Council after the attack by the US and the UK on the Houthis in Yemen:
The strikes on Yemen are an armed aggression by a group of countries against another state, the war in the Middle East is spreading to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden;
The United States will arbitrarily determine, in violation of international law, the "threats" against which it will resume its attacks in Yemen;
The UN Security Council has not imposed sanctions against the United States and its allies for these strikes;
Russia calls on the international community to strongly condemn the strikes on Yemen.
On Friday, the US Air Forces Central revealed that their strikes against the Houthi positions had hit over 60 targets dispersed across 16 different locations in Yemen. On Saturday, the US caaried out another strike on Yemen, targeting a Houthi radar, the Pentagon's Central Command said.
The attack was condemned by Russia as a "pretext for further escalation of tension in the region," the ministry's spokeswoman, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova stated on Friday.
