This video of December 30, 2025 depicts a fire caused by raids in Mukalla Port, Hadramout, Yemen. © Global Look Press / Murad
The Saudi Arabia-led coalition carried out, as it referred to, a "limited raid" on a key seaport in Yemen, aiming at an alleged arms shipment intended for separatists supported by the UAE.
In a message published on Tuesday by the Saudi state press agency SPA, the Coalition for the Restoration of the Legitimation in Yemen – an alliance led by Saudi Arabia formed in 2015 to fight Huti rebels at the request of the internationally recognized Yemen government – reported that the mark of the attack was arms and combat vehicles landed from ships arriving from the UAE.
Military supplies allegedly were to go to the confederate Transitional Council (STC), which seeks autonomy in the south of the country.
According to the statement, 2 ships arrived at the weekend from the port of Fujihra in the United arabian Emirates without government approval and entered Mukalla, the only seaport in Hadramout state in confederate Yemen.
Ships allegedly shut down their tracking systems and unloaded large amounts of military equipment intended ‘to support STC’.
At the request of president Rashad al-Alimi, the coalition's Air Force launched an attack on the unloaded equipment on Tuesday morning, informing that it had not caused any casualties or collateral damage.
Infographics entitled ‘A coalition under the command of Saudi Arabia conducts a ‘limited’ raid on 2 ships in Mukalla port, Yemen’ of 30 December 2025. © Getty Images / Elif Acar/Anadol
The STC separatists initially fought within a coalition under Saudi Arabia, which intervened in Yemen following the outbreak of the 2014 civilian War, but later turned towards the pursuit of autonomy in the south of the country.
From 2022, they have controlled a large condition of confederate Yemen under the power-sharing agreement and occupied large areas of territory, including the strategically crucial provinces of Hadramout and Mahrah, bordering Saudi Arabia.
The Huti control northern Yemen, including Sana Capital, after pushing the Saudi-backed government southwards.
The Tuesday attack followed reports that Saudi Arabia late carried out air strikes on separatist positions in Hadramout.
The Ministry of abroad Affairs of the UAE did not comment on the case.
Alimi announced a 90-day state of emergency in Yemen, introducing a 72-hour air, sea and land blockade, and broke the safety pact with the UAE after the attack.
In a tv speech, he ordered the STC to transfer the territory to forces supported by Saudi Arabia, calling the advancement of separatists "unacceptable rebellion" and requested the UAE to retreat its forces from Yemen within 24 hours.
Saudi Arabia warned that the support given to separatists by the UAE constitutes "a threat to the national safety of the Kingdom, as well as to safety and stableness in Yemen and the region as a whole", while calling on Abu Dhabi to comply with Yemen's request to retreat its armed forces.
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Source:https://www.rt.com/news/630220-saudi-coalition-yemen-strike/
