The United Nations Security Council resolution on the Red Sea gives no right to deliver strikes on Yemen, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, Paralel.Az reports citing TASS.

"This resolution gives no grounds to even think that anyone has the right to deliver any strikes," she said in an interview with the Voskresny Vecher (Sunday Evening) with Vladimir Soloviov program on the Rossiya-1 television channel.

According to the Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman, not a single UN Charter article cited in the UN Security Council resolution on the Red Sea authorizes airstrikes. "It (the resolution - TASS) lists neither countries nor possibilities nor instruments," she added.

The UN Security Council adopted a resolution on the safety of navigation in the Red Sea demanding an immediate end to attacks on ships. As many as 11 UN Security Council members voted for the document, while four countries, namely, Russia, China, Algeria, and Mozambique, abstained. Prior to that, the UNSC rejected three Russian proposals to amend the text of the draft resolution, including the one that mentioned the conflict between Palestine and Israel as the reason behind the recent escalation in the Red Sea.

On the night of January 12, the United States and the United Kingdom delivered air strikes on rebel-held positions in several Yemeni cities, using aircraft, warships and submarines. US President Joe Biden said the military action was ordered in response to "unprecedented Houthi attacks" on shipping in the Red Sea and that the strikes were delivered in self-defense.

Following the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the Gaza Strip, the Houthis warned that they would launch strikes on Israeli territory while barring ships associated with the Jewish state from passing through the waters of the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait until Tel Aviv ceased its military operation against Palestinian radical group Hamas in the embattled enclave. According to the US Defense Department’s Central Command’s (CENTCOM) estimates, the Yemeni rebel group has attacked more than 20 vessels and civilian ships in the Red Sea since mid-November.