How did the international community react to the airstrikes carried out by the US and UK against the Yemeni Houthis?

◾️Who condemned the action:

• 🇷🇺 Russia. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova castigated the US strikes on Yemen as a perversion of the UN Security Council’s resolutions and a complete disregard for international law. The Kremlin also condemned the US attack on Yemen, Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov stated.

• 🇨🇳 China. Beijing is concerned about the Red Sea escalation and has called on the parties to show calm and restraint, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said.

• 🇴🇲 Oman. The Sultanate of Oman condemned the joint American-British bombing of Yemen, while Israel carries on with its brutal war in the Gaza Strip without accountability or punishment.

• 🇮🇷 Iran. Tehran condemned the attack on the Houthis in Yemen, warning that it will fuel "insecurity and instability" in the region, said Nasser Kannani, spokesperson at Iran's foreign ministry.

• 🇹🇷 Turkiye. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized the overnight US and British airstrikes, describing the military assault as a disproportionate use of force.

• 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Foreign Ministry called for restraint and avoiding escalation after the strikes and said it was monitoring the situation with great concern.

• 🇸🇾 Syria. The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs lashed out at this latest case of US-British aggression, branding it as "an attempt to divert attention from Israel’s war crimes".

• 🇮🇶 Iraq. Baghdad, has officially denounced the airstrikes, stressing that they could potentially lead to an escalation of the conflict and broaden its scope.

◾️Who’s neutral:

• 🇰🇼 Kuwait. The Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry expressed its "great concern and attention", stressing the importance of maintaining security and stability in the Red Sea region.

◾️Who supports the action:

• 🇳🇱 The Netherlands. Prime Minister Mark Rutte noted the government provided military support for this operation.

• 🇦🇺 Australia. The Australian authorities provided personnel support to the US and the UK in their strikes against Houthi military targets in Yemen, Defence Minister Richard Marles said.

• 🇨🇦 Canada. Ottawa provided support for the joint US-UK airstrikes.

• 🇧🇭 Bahrain. The one and only Arab country who provided support for the US-UK airstrikes.

• 🇩🇰 Denmark. Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said that Copenhagen "fully supports" the strikes against the Yemeni Houthis.

• 🇨🇿 Czech Republic. President Petr Pavel backed the move, saying the "military action of our allies is a necessary step to prevent mounting tension in the region".

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Who controls Yemen? Let's take a look at the political map.

1. Red indicates the territory controlled by the Houthis. The majority of the Yemeni population lives here. The Houthis also control the country's capital, Sanaa.

2. Green indicates territory under the control of a central and internationally-recognized government. It is extremely dependent on the Saudi coalition, which was fighting against the Houthis, and de facto represents its interests. The formal capital is Marib.

3. Light blue is for the Southern Transitional Council (southern provinces seeking separation from Yemen who gravitate towards the UAE). The council controls Aden.

4. The island of Socotra is highlighted in deep blue - it is actually controlled by the UAE. The safest place in Yemen at the moment.

5. Areas under the control of ISIS and Al-Qaeda terrorists are marked in black.

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📹 Protests against US and British strikes on Yemen took place in Lebanon, Yemen, Jordan and the United States.

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US and UK attack on Yemen: Which weapons were used?

The United States and Britain sent missiles, warships and fighter jets to strike Yemen, ostensibly in retaliation for the earlier Houthi attacks against Israeli-linked cargo vessels in the Red Sea.
Based on information available from open sources, the military assets Washington and London employed in this attack included:

▪️US guided-missile destroyers

▪️US guided-missile nuclear submarines

▪️British Typhoon multirole fighter aircraft

▪️Tomahawk cruise missiles

▪️Paveway IV precision-guided bombs

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🗣 The US cannot win a war of attrition in the Red Sea:

"US destroyers might have a very good radar, but if you send towards them a bunch of drones, eventually it going to run out of missiles. What will be the most insulting in this case, so to speak, the rubbing salt in the wound, will be the fact the Houthis just probably will be sending $5-6,000 drone, at which you will have to expend your $1.5-2 million air defense missile, if not more, in terms of costs. And then, God forbid, for the United States if they have some destroyer, let alone aircraft carrier hit by some kind of the explosive device or drone. That will have not just technical problems, it will be a political issue in the United States," military analyst Andrei Martyanov told the New Rules podcast.

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Tesla Berlin will stop most production for two weeks due to disruptions in the Red Sea, according to Reuters

The car manufacturer will suspend production of most vehicles at its plant near Berlin from January 29 to February 11, the company said late Thursday, citing component shortages caused by changes in transport routes due to attacks on ships in the Red Sea.

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Major General Abdullah al-Jafri told Sputnik that “Yemeni forces were fully prepared for attacks by the US and UK.”

“We were fully prepared for these attacks, we knew that the US and its agents would strike. By committing such aggression, Washington has opened a Pandora's box that it will never close. We will respond decisively to this aggression, a variety of scenarios are being considered, and the United States and Great Britain will have to come to terms with the extremely painful consequences of their actions," he said.

With this attack, Washington is reportedly trying to restore its prestige and protect Israeli ships in the Red Sea. After all, the White House realized that Israel had reached the stage of complete collapse as a result of the economic crisis caused precisely by the attacks in the Red and Arabian Seas, al-Jafri told Sputnik.

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US strikes Yemen as ‘feckless’ Blinken fails to resolve crisis in Middle East

The Biden administration’s decision to attack Yemen puts the US in a precarious situation, said former Pentagon senior security policy analyst Michael Maloof.

“[The] United States could slip into a war,” he said, noting that the US’ actions embolden Israel and prompt it to escalate the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip.

“What could stop it is if the United States stops all of its exports of munitions to Israel at this point, because otherwise you're just feeding it, you're feeding the fire here,” Maloof remarked. “We're pouring more and more gasoline on the fire.”

He also observed that the recent visit to the Middle East by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was “useless,” seeing how the Houthis continued their attacks on the shipping lanes in the Red Sea.

“But beyond that, he's feckless, he's ineffective, and he's very timid and meek. He's not strong at all. And for that matter he's not doing anything that brings about or shows any ability to bring these sides together,” Maloof said. “All he's doing is spending, wasting money traveling around doing nothing and he's totally useless.”

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❗️ Zelensky critic Gonzalo Lira dies in Ukrainian prison

Since May 2023, the US State Department was aware that Lira, a US citizen, had been incarcerated in a Ukrainian prison.

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US State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller doesn't answer directly whether or not DoS working to release a US citizen Gonzalo Lira, who criticized Zelensky and was detained in Ukraine, but says "we [DoS] ... support exercise of freedom of speech", during the Department Press Briefing of May 28, 2023.

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📹 Russia's artillery crews wipe out Ukrainian positions in Donetsk

Operator of the reconnaissance drone detected a cluster of Ukrainian personnel and transmitted the coordinates of the targets to the command post. A few minutes later, the crew of a Msta-B howitzer inflicted fire damage on the militants who were trying to gain a foothold in the forest belt.

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A State Department spokesperson confirmed that US citizen Gonzalo Lira died in a Ukrainian prison following his long detainment and offered condolences to his family.

“We can confirm the death of a U.S. citizen in Ukraine. We offer our sincerest condolences to the family on their loss,” the spokesperson said in a statement on Friday when asked to confirm Lira’s death.

❗️ US and Britain have launched a new airstrike on the north of Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, a source in the administration of the city told Sputnik

"US and British aircraft again struck the Al-Dleimi air base in northern Sanaa," the source said.

The US launched a new strike in Yemen, it was directed against the Houthi radar installation, the Pentagon confirmed.

The strike was carried out from an American destroyer using a Tomahawk missile.

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Biden told reporters he does not think the United States is in a de facto proxy war with Iran as it deals with violence in the Middle East.

Iran has already rejected accusations from Western countries over Tehran's alleged involvement in the Houthi attacks on merchant ships in the Red Sea. In addition, Iran emphasized that resistance groups in the Middle East, such as the Houthis, do not receive any instructions from Iran.

The US and the UK carried out strikes against Houthi positions in Yemen in response to attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea. US officials said these strikes were meant to degrade the Houthis' capability to launch attacks.

The Houthis threatened that the United States and the United Kingdom would pay a "high price" for the attack.

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The US military said it hit more than 60 targets at 16 Houthi locations, including command and control centers, ammunition depots, launchers, production facilities and air defense radar systems.

The Houthis claim that a total of 73 strikes were carried out on targets in four provinces, and that there were no serious consequences of these attacks.

Check out Sputnik's infographics to learn more about the impact locations of the US and UK strikes on Yemen.

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😪 Poor Ol’ Joe needs some rest...

While the entire world community is watching with bated breath the tense situation in the Middle East, where the United States has launched a new strike in Yemen, Biden is leaving Washington again to rest, the White House said.

After the White House's attempt to justify Biden's low public activity, he visited the state of Pennsylvania on Friday to communicate with small businesses: he went to a coffee shop, a bicycle shop and spoke briefly with reporters at the fire station.

After this intense activity, the US president is leaving for the weekend at the Camp David country residence.

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The war is spreading to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, Russia's Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia told the UN Security Council briefing on the US-led "international coalition's" attacks on Yemeni territory.

"We have seen a situation of exactly this kind - armed aggression by a group of countries against another state," Nebenzia said.

Russia has already condemned the US strikes in Yemen.

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A demonstration in support of Palestine and Yemen brought together several hundred people in New York City overnight

The demonstrators temporarily blocked First Avenue near the UN headquarters before moving further to the northern part of the city.

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On January 13, Taiwan's citizens are electing the head of the administration, the deputy head and 113 members of the Legislative Yuan (parliament).

Among the candidates:

▪️Lai Ching-te of the Democratic Progressive Party
▪️Hou Yu-ih of the Kuomintang Party
▪️Ko Wen-je of the Taiwan People's Party

This time, participation in the elections is only possible in person, remote voting is prohibited.

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What you need to know about those running for Taiwan's regional leadership:

Lai Ching-te, 64, is the candidate from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party. He has repeatedly signaled a willingness to pursue a hard-line policy to achieve Taiwan's independence from mainland China, while also calling for close cooperation with Taipei's Western partners.

Hou Yu-ih, 66, is the candidate from the Kuomintang party. Hou opposes Taiwan's independence and favors normalizing Taipei's relations with Beijing. But Hou is unwilling to sit down with Chinese authorities to discuss Taiwan's reunification with the mainland.

Ko Wen-je, 64, is the candidate of the Taiwan People's Party, which he founded in 2019. Ko has repeatedly expressed a willingness to engage in dialogue with Beijing and maintain the status quo. He also calls for maintaining peace through deterrence and cooperation.

According to recent polls, Lai Ching-te remains the favorite in the race for Taiwan's regional leadership.

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