Red Sea: how Russia helped Houthi rebels attack Western ships

This WSJ information comes from a “person familiar with the matter” and “two European defense officials”.

This data would have been transmitted by Iranian intermediaries, again according to the American media.

Growing tension

Since October 2023, the Houthis have carried out attacks towards Israel, regularly sending armed missiles and drones towards its territorial enemy and ships allegedly linked to them, in solidarity with Hamas.

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These attacks disrupted traffic in this crucial maritime area for international trade, leading the United States to establish an international maritime coalition and strike rebel targets in Yemen, sometimes with assistance from the United Kingdom. .

Vladimir Poutine has been seeking for months to demonstrate the failure of the policy of diplomatic isolation and economic sanctions targeting his country since the assault of Russian troops in Ukraine in February 2022.

The Russian president thus increased the number of bilateral meetings during the BRICS summit, nine countries which account for almost half of the world's population (including China, India and Iran).