According to him, the crew reported that they were leaving the cargo ship at 1:45 p.m. Sana’a time. The nearby ship Anna Meta responded to the signal.
“The ship received the sailors and is now transporting them to a safe place,” RIA Novosti quotes a CENTCOM statement.
As noted by the US military, the crew had to abandon the freighter due to an ongoing fire. At the same time, the command claims that the Iranian frigate Jamaran, which was passing by the Ukrainian ship, ignored the distress signal.
Previously, the Houthis themselves said that the Verbena sank in the Gulf of Aden. And the Tutor ship, which turned out to be the target of their attack in the Red Sea, may begin to sink underwater in the coming hours.
Recall that the Yemeni Houthis have repeatedly attacked American and British Navy ships, as well as commercial ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, as a sign of solidarity with the Palestinian group Hamas and residents of the Gaza Strip.
According to US intelligence, at least 65 countries and major energy and shipping companies, including Shell, BP, Maersk and Cosco, have already been attacked.
