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Yemeni forces have liberated hundreds of square kilometers of land and inflicted heavy losses on UAEs mercenaries in the southern Shabwah province, military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree said Wednesday.
More than 515 militants and Daesh terrorists, including high-profile commanders, were killed and over 850 others injured in clashes, he said.
At least 200 members of the UAE’s so-called Al-Amaliqa (Giants) Brigades were missing.
“Our forces caused very large losses among UAE mercenaries & ISIS (Daesh) in the Shabwa governorate during past few days,” Saree tweeted.
“The death toll reached more than 515, including leaders , the number of wounded exceeded 850 wounded &more than 200 missing, according to intelligence sources.”
Saree said more than 102 armored vehicles belonging to the UAE-backed forces, in addition to a number of large and sophisticated cannons, had also been destroyed.
Yemeni armed forces, he said, have launched dozens of missile strikes against the positions of UAE mercenaries and Daesh terrorists in Shabwah, killing and wounding scores of them.
“Yemeni army soldiers and Popular Committees fighters continue to make sacrifices out of altruism as they confront Daesh elements and UAE mercenaries,” Saree said.
The UAE has recently dispatched takfiri militants with military equipment to Ma’rib to stop the final push by Yemeni forces to the strategic central province.
Pro-Saudi media outlets alleged that groups of UAE-backed militants had entered Ma’rib province from neighboring Shabwah province.
They claimed that the so-called crack al-Amaliqa Brigades had advanced into Marib province, recapturing most of the Harib district and turning around the fortunes of the battle.
Lebanon’s Al-Mayadeen TV said the commander of the Third Brigade of the UAE-backed forces, Majdi al-Radfani, had died of his injuries after Yemeni forces targeted his forces in the Bayhan district of Shabwah province.
Separately, Yemen’s Ansarullah movement lambasted Saudi Arabia for using footage from a documentary on the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq to accuse Yemeni armed forces of stockpiling Iranian ballistic missiles in the besieged Red Sea port city of Hudaydah.
“The fact that Spokesman of the Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen Colonel Turki al-Maliki has admitted to his great scandal about the footage, and said such missile sites do not exist other than in films is ridiculous and pathetic,” Ansarullah spokesman Muhammad Abdulsalam tweeted.
“What is called the margin of error is the gravest sin that aggressors have repeatedly committed against Yemeni people with the support of the United States,” he added.
Maliki, who traveled to Shabwah on Tuesday, has officially acknowledged that the recent footage about the Yemeni army’s missile depot in Hudaydah was fake.
Earlier, he had claimed to have incriminating evidence of weapons development in Hudaydah. The remarks were broadcast on the Saudi state-run Al-Saudiya channel, and shared to its YouTube channel.
“Hudaydah port is the primary port for receiving Iranian ballistic missiles. The missiles are put together and assembled in [the port] under the supervision of Iranian security officials,” he claimed, while displaying purported satellite images of the coastal area.
“I will show you a video which shows the ballistic missiles in Hudaydah,” Maliki continued. At this moment, a two-second clip of two large warheads is shown on screen.
The clip was taken from the 2009 documentary “Severe Clear,” featuring videos taken by U.S. Marine Mike Scotti at the beginning of Iraq’s invasion by Western forces.
The original footage, shot in Baghdad around April 2003, shows two large missiles, with an American voice saying, “So much for him [presumably Saddam Hussein] not having weapons.” It then sweeps to the other side of the room to show U.S. soldiers.
It is believed that the Saudi coalition used the footage to justify the bombing of a port in Hudaydah – a strategically important maritime city that has been the site of intense fighting between Saudi-led coalition forces and Yemeni army troops.
On Tuesday, Saudi military aircraft carried out a fresh round of airstrikes in Shabwah, Ma’rib and Al-Bayda, as well as the northern province of Al-Jawf.
Yemen’s Al-Masirah television network, citing local sources, reported that Saudi warplanes launched 37 air raids on Bayhan, Ain, and Harib districts of Shabwah on Tuesday evening.
Saudi warplanes also struck Al-Balaq area in the Wadi Ubaidah district of Ma’rib Province on eight occasions.
