President Vladimir Zelensky said at a briefing with journalists that four Ukrainian sailors are being held captive by the Yemeni Houthis.
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They are working on their return. The president did not specify other details.
Most likely, we are talking about crew members of the Galaxy Leader cargo ship, which was captured by the Houthis in the Red Sea on November 19 last year. Speaker of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Oleg Nikolenko, in a commentary to hromadske, said that we are talking about the crew of the Galaxy Leader cargo ship, which the Houthis captured in November 2023.
Then the media wrote that there were from 22 to 25 crew members on board, including Ukrainians. On the same day, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that they were checking the information, but did not report the results.
On the night of January 12, the United States and Great Britain launched air and sea strikes against Houthi military installations in Yemen in response to attacks on ships in the Red Sea by militants of this movement.
The United States and Britain hit Houthi military installations in Yemen in response to the movement’s attacks on ships in the Red Sea. In the 1990s, the Houthi family founded the religious revival movement of the Zaydi sect of Shia Islam. They had conflicts with the government and fought guerrilla wars.
The war in Yemen began at the end of 2014. Saudi Arabia intervened in the conflict. Then the Houthis captured the city of Sanaa and established control over a large part of the north and other large population centers.
The Houthis say their attacks on shipping routes in the Red Sea are a show of support for the Palestinians and Hamas.
The Houthis are part of the so-called Resistance Force, an anti-Israeli and anti-Western alliance of militias (Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis) backed by Iran. The Houthi slogan is: “Death to America, death to Israel, curse on the Jews and victory for Islam.”
The attacks disrupted international trade, forcing ships to take the long route around South Africa to avoid being hit. And rising shipping costs could trigger a new outbreak of global inflation.
Source: Racurs
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