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Russia Urges End to Horrific Saudi-Led Massacres in Yemen

Saturday 16 January 2016
Russia Urges End to Horrific Saudi-Led Massacres in Yemen

Alwaght-Russia has described the Saudi-led coalition massacres in Yemen as horrific, calling for an immediate ceasefire and engaging in negations without preconditions.

The Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a news conference in Moscow that despite the positive signals made by the negotiations between the Yemeni opposing parties in Geneva last December, but the armed confrontation in this country are still continuing, especially after the Saudi-led coalition announced the end of the truce and resumed the military operations.

"In recent days the media circulated horrible news about the Saudi-led coalition bombing on a MSF-supported hospital in Sa’ada, which resulted in deaths and injuries," she added.In this regard, the spokeswoman explained that the information received from Yemen referred to the killing of thousands of civilians including women and children. She called for putting an end to this horrible acts and resuming the negotiations under the auspices of the United Nations.
Elsewhere the Saudi-led coalition launched on Friday an airstrike on Dhamar province.
The Saudi War jets bombed for the second time in less than a fortnight a warehouse of a snack factory next to Dhamar University, a security official said.

No casualties were immediately reported after the airstrike, he added.The snack factory's warehouse was first bombed on 2 January.
Meanwhile, in retaliatory attacks, the Yemeni army and popular committees on Saturday fired Uragan and Katyusha rockets at gatherings of Saudi-led mercenaries in the Third Military Region camp in Mareb province.

A military official said that the rockets hit their targets, causing casualties among the mercenaries and the invasion forces.Violent explosions rocked the area after the bombing and fires blazed in the weapons stores and a fuel station, the official added.
During nearly ten months of the Saudi war on Yemen, at least 7,700 people have been killed mostly civilians including women and children.
The illegal war on Yemen has also inflicted damages on hundreds of important installations in the civilian infrastructure including hospitals, schools, mosques, residential quarters, water reservoirs etc.

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