Brigadier General Yahya Saree announced  that the Yemeni armed forces targeted the American oil tanker OLYMPIC SPIRIT with 11 ballistic missiles and two drones in the Red Sea.

"This operation was carried out in cooperation with the missile and drone unit of the Yemeni army," he added.

General Saree said that the armed forces of Yemen also directly targeted another ship named ST. JOHN in the Indian Ocean with a cruise missile.