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Flames and black smoke appeared on Saturday, 19 September, near Ryad Airport, where explosions had sounded in the night for the first time since the resumption of hostilities with the Yemeni Houthis. "There is an important escalation," explains our journalist Antoine Mariotti.
The residents of the Saudi capital were awakened during the night of Saturday to Sunday by an attack risk alert followed by two large explosions. On Saturday, the Houthi movement in Yemen claimed responsibility for an attack on "sensitive" sites in the Saudi capital, where explosions had sounded during the night for the first time since the resumption of hostilities between Ryad and these pro-Iranian fighters.
Russian forces attacked on Thursday, September 17, a shopping centre in the city of Zaporijia, according to the statement of the Ukrainian regional governor Ivan Fedorov. No victims were reported during the attack, which took place the day before the parliamentary elections in Russia began.
