Russian planes were sent into Yemen by the Russian government to save people, no matter where they're from
The Russian Navy vessel
Priazovye has helped to evacuate 308 people from war-torn Yemen. The Russian Defense Ministry stated citizens from 19 countries had been rescued, including Russian, Ukrainian, US and Yemeni nationals.
The Russian warship departed the southern Yemeni port of Aden on Sunday night and is due to arrive in Djibouti, on the east coast of Africa on Monday morning.
"Among those evacuated from the zone of hostilities in the Aden area, were citizens of 19 countries, including 45 Russian nationals," Igor Konashenkov, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Sunday.
There were also a number of foreign citizens aboard the
Priazovye, including
18 Americans,
14 Ukrainians, nine Belorusians, five UK citizens, as well as 159 Yemeni nationals.
The Russian warship had been based in the Gulf of Aden to help carry out anti-piracy missions, before it was sent towards Yemen to aid the evacuation. It follows weeks of Saudi-led airstrikes against Houthi anti-government rebels.
This is not the first Russian-led evacuation in Yemen. Earlier in April, Moscow organized flights and ship to help evacuate its own citizens, as well as a number of foreigners, from the conflict area. So far,
Russian aircraft have made five rescue missions into Yemen to airlift people caught in the war-zone to safety.
Comment: Despite the Turkish sensitivity over the word genocide, what the Ottoman Turks did to the Armenians most definitely can be described as genocide. The Pope is merely saying what everyone in the world already knows, that the Turks systematically exterminated Armenians during WWI.
The forgotten holocaust:
“Scenes like this were common all over the Armenian provinces, in the spring and summer months of 1915. Death in its several forms—massacre, starvation, exhaustion—destroyed the larger part of the refugees. The Turkish policy was that of extermination under the guise of deportation.”