The UN Security Council will meet urgently this afternoon (UTC) after strikes launched by US and British military forces against the Houthis in Yemen, announced France, which holds the presidency of the SA for the month of January.

The extraordinary meeting is held at the request of Russia, said the French presidency of the SA. This will take place later today after another scheduled Council meeting on the situation in the Gaza Strip.

“We cannot but be concerned about the current situation in the Red Sea (…) But we are also concerned because the US and its allies choose, as often, a unilateral solution with the use of force,” the Russian ambassador to the United Nations had previously emphasized , Vasily Nebenzia.

Russia, which has come under fire for what the West says is an illegal war in Ukraine, said the attack in Yemen was carried out without a mandate from the United Nations.

Along with China, Russia on Wednesday abstained from voting in the UN Security Council, which in a resolution demanded an “immediate” end to Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea, while calling on all member states to respect the embargo. weapons against Iran-backed Yemeni rebels.