USA offensive against Huti. Reuters: Huti leaders were killed, involved in the drone program

Department of Defense USA organized his first press conference on Monday since the office was taken over by Donald Trump.

Spokesman Pentagon Sean Parnell said that Trump's administration is striving for “peace through strength”. “We will use overwhelming and deadly strength until we achieve our goal,” he added.

Parnell denied that the attacks on Huti They were an “endless offensive”. – It's not about changing the regime in the Middle East. It's about putting American interests first – he said.

– I said at the weekend that there is a very clear final stage of this operation, and it begins when Huti undertakes that they would stop attacking ships and expose American life – he said.

General of Broni Alex Grynkewich, an operational commander at the College of Bossing Bosses, reported that the first wave of attacks in Yemen It was directed at over 30 facilities, including “terrorist training centers, infrastructure of unmanned aerial vehicles, plants producing weapons and objects for storing it.” Reuters reports that, according to the general, the attacks were also directed against Huti experts for the construction and use of drones.

Grynkewich added that several dozen members of the organization were probably killed. He noted that Washington has not yet confirmed whether some civilians were killed, but now “there is no reliable evidence of civil victims.” The general emphasized that the army has a “wider range” of goals than during administration Joe Biden.

The Reuters agency reported that the army had killed Huti leaders who were involved in the program for building and using drones.

Earlier, on the Truth Social Social Platform, US President Donald Trump wrote: “Let's not be fooled! Hundreds of attacks made by Huti, sinister gangsters and bandits from Yemen, whom the Yemenian nation hates, are the work of Iran.”

He announced that “each subsequent attack or retaliation on the part of Huti will meet with great strength.”

“Iran ripped the 'innocent victim' of dishonest terrorists who got out of control, but he did not really lose control over them

He warned that “every shot fired by Huti would now be seen as a shot fired by Iran and Iran would be held responsible.” Trump added that “the consequences will be terrible.”

On Saturday, the US began a new offensive against Huti, who controlled a large part of Yemen and from autumn 2023 have carried out over 100 attacks on ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of ADEŃSKA, disrupting transport on this key sea trail for the world economy. This is the largest US military surgery in the Middle East since the office is taken over President of the United States by Donald Trump in January 2025.

The Ministry of Health led by Huti announced on Sunday that at least 53 people were killed in attacks. There were five children and two women among the victims. 98 people were injured.

Reuters pointed out that he was unable to verify the number of victims independently.

Huti announced on Sunday that in retaliation they attacked with rockets and drone American aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and accompanying ships. An anonymous Pentagon official later told Reuters that American fighters shot down 11 rebel drones.

Yemeni rebels are considered by the West to be a terrorist organization. Huti emphasizes that their raids are aimed at ships related to Israeland by attacking them, they support Palestinian Hamas in the Gaza Strip.