The Kremlin today condemned the US and British air strikes Yemen She denounced that these actions are not protected by any resolution issued by the UN Security Council.
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in his daily telephone press conference: “We condemn them (the attacks),” adding that “from the point of view of international law, they are illegal.”
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He pointed out that the Security Council approved a draft resolution submitted by the United States condemning the attacks by Yemeni rebels, on which Russia and three other countries abstained from voting.
“We abstained from voting. The countries that launched the attack tried to give a legal basis for their actions. The spokesman stressed that this attempt failed because the adopted resolution did not give the right to launch attacks.
Regarding Houthi attacks on commercial ships, Peskov noted that Russia has repeatedly called on the Yemeni rebels to “abandon this practice,” which Russia considers “very wrong.”
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Russian diplomatic spokeswoman, Maria Zagarova, previously described the bombing on Yemeni territory as another example of “complete disregard for international law.”
“The US air strikes against Yemen are another example of the Anglo-Saxons’ distortion of UN Security Council resolutions and complete disregard for international law in the name of escalating the situation in the region for their own destructive purposes,” Zagarova wrote in a telegram.
US President Joe Biden confirmed last night that US military forces, in cooperation with the United Kingdom and with the support of eight other countries, carried out successful attacks against several targets in Yemen.
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The president explained that this measure came in response to attacks by the Houthi rebels, supported by Iran, who on Thursday launched a ballistic missile with the aim of hitting shipping routes in the Gulf of Aden, a strategic route for transporting oil. Coming from the Persian Gulf.
The United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Bahrain, Canada, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, New Zealand and South Korea issued a joint statement confirming that the measure was taken in defense of international trade and those crossing the sea. – Red color, through which approximately 15% of global maritime trade passes.
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