The Yemeni Ansar Allah movement announced an attack on the British oil tanker Marlin Luanda, which was sailing through the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea. reports BBC.
American officials said the strike was carried out by an anti-ship ballistic missile. A nearby warship responded to the distress signal sent by the tanker.
There were no casualties among the crew as a result of the impact. The tanker’s operator, Trafigura, told the BBC that a fire had started in one of the cargo compartments of the ship carrying oil. Fire-fighting equipment was deployed on board.
Po words representative of Trafigura, the tanker was transporting Russian oil purchased at a price below the “ceiling” established by Western countries.
Later US Central Command stated, which struck a Houthi anti-ship missile aimed at the Red Sea and preparing to launch. The US military discovered the missile in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen and destroyed it in self-defense.
Since the fall of 2023, Yemen’s Houthis have regularly attacked ships in the Red Sea. On November 14, the group announced that it would attack all ships associated with Israel. named their actions were a response to “American-Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip,” however, not only military, but also commercial ships from different countries were attacked.
On January 10, the British Ministry of Defense reported that destroyers of the British fleet, together with American ships, repelled the largest Houthi attack in the Red Sea in recent times. The next day, the US and UK launched large-scale strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen. Biden called the strikes “defensive actions.”
On January 17, the United States re-listed Yemen’s Houthi movement as a terrorist group in connection with attacks on ships in the Red Sea. The Houthis were first listed as a terrorist organization by the Donald Trump administration shortly before he left office, but under Joe Biden the Houthis were removed from the list so as not to worsen the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.
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2024-01-27 07:00:00
