Three Russian crew members aboard an oil tanker were injured during a U.S. airstrike on Yemen’s Ras Isa oil port on April 25, according to officials from both the Russian and Houthi sides.
The vessel, a 54,000 deadweight tonnage product tanker named Seven Pearls, was docked at the port and preparing to unload oil when the strike occurred.
Houthi foreign minister Jamal Amer reported that the three sailors suffered injuries of varying severity and were later taken to a hospital. He identified them as Artyom Vanin, Igor Kazachenko, and Roman Kashpor.
The Russian charge d’affaires in Yemen, Yevgeny Kudrov, confirmed that all three injured men were crew members of the ship Seven Pearls. He stated that one sailor is still hospitalised and may need surgery due to a serious eye injury.
However, according to Kudrov, none of their lives are currently at risk. The remaining
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