The Yemeni army’s air defences have on Saturday morning shot down a spy aircraft belonging to the Saudi-led coalition forces in the airspace of Hajjah province, northwestern Yemen.
“Our Air Defences shot down a Turkish-made Karayel spy drone operated by Saudi Air forces, while it was violating the UN-sponsored truce with hostile actions this morning in the airspace of Hayran district, Hajjah Governorate,” the Armed Forces spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Sare’e said in a statement.
دفاعاتنا الجوية تتمكن بفضل الله من إسقاط طائرة تجسسية مسلحة نوع كاريال تركية الصنع تابعة لسلاح الجو السعودي أثناء قيامها بخرق الهدنة وتنفيذ مهام عدائية في أجواء منطقة حيران في محافظة حجة صباح يومنا هذا.
تمت عملية الاستهداف بصاروخ أرض جو محلي الصنع لم يكشف عنه بعد.— العميد يحيى سريع (@army21ye) May 21, 2022
The plane was hit with a locally-made surface-to-air missile, of a type which has not yet been publicly revealed, he added.
The spokesman affirmed the Armed Forces’ readiness to respond to any violation by US-Saudi aggression, stressing that such attacks “confirm the lack of seriousness of US-Saudi aggression to commitment to the truce and peace process.”
Earlier on May 5, the Yemeni Air Defences announced shooting down a Chinese-made CH-4 spy drone in the border district of Haradh in Hajjah Governorate.
