Saudi Arabia has asked Russia to intervene and help prevent the strategic city of Marib from falling into the hands of Yemen’s Ansuar Allah, the Al-Akhbar newspaper reported.
The paper quoted sources as saying that the Saudi Foreign Minister, Faisal Bin Farhan, spoke on the phone with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, and asked him to mediate between the kingdom and Ansuar Allah to stop the group from advancing towards Marib.
The sources explained that the Saudi move aimed to exert pressure on the United States, which has been ignoring Saudi appeals to prevent the Ansuar Allah from taking over Marib as President Donald Trump is preoccupied with the presidential elections scheduled for November.
