Hussite rebels attacked several oil facilities in Saudi Arabia. This was reported by Bloomberg with reference to the Ministry of Energy.
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It is reported that the raid from the sea was, in particular, an oil storage tank at the export terminal in the port of Ras Tannur on the coast of the Persian Gulf. It is considered the most protected oil facility in the world, the agency said.
According to the Saudi Ministry of Energy, the terminal was attacked by unmanned aerial vehicles. In addition, the wreckage fell near a residential complex where employees of the national oil company Saudi Aramco live.
A ministry spokesman said no one was injured in the two attacks, and that the country’s oil infrastructure had not been damaged.
Earlier, the command of the Riyadh-led military coalition said it had intercepted rockets and drones with bombs fired from Hussite-controlled areas of neighboring Yemen.
Rebel spokesman Yahya Sari said the Hussites had launched eight ballistic missiles and 14 bombs with drones in Saudi Arabia on Sunday. Last week, insurgents claimed to have struck at Saudi Aramco’s fuel depot in the western city of Jeddah.
The attack on Ras Tannur came the day after a massive Saudi attack on Hussite targets in Sana’a and other Yemeni provinces.
Bloomberg writes:
The current attack on Saudi Aramco has become the most serious since September 2019, when the Hussites fired drones and missiles at the company’s key refinery and two fields. Then it led to a reduction in oil production in the country for a few days and a short-term increase in world oil prices by 20%.
In November 2020, the Hussites struck at Saudi Aramco’s oil facilities in Jeddah. Riyadh said the attack did not harm the company’s customers – only one of the 13 tanks was damaged, and the fire was quickly extinguished.
The Saudi-led Arab military coalition has been fighting the Hussite rebels (Ansar Allah) since 2015, who have come to power in Yemen. The coalition is supported by the United States.
The conflict in Yemen has been going on since August 2014. The military confrontation intensified after the invasion of the coalition in March 2015 by a coalition led by Saudi Arabia. The ongoing war has led to the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. According to the United Nations, more than 24 million Yemenis – about 80 percent of the country’s population – need humanitarian assistance, and more than 3 million are internally displaced.
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