Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
Not certain of the provenance of the text, but even translated, it doesn't sound like Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] By nightfall, the Houthis had split the Taiz pocket in two. The southern portion collapsed overnight, marking the beginning of surrenders and weapons handovers.
Those encircled in the northern portion continue to resist, but are also losing ground. Furthermore, having secured the southern portion of the pocket, the Houthis have already launched an offensive to the southeast, advancing through the mountainous terrain.
The Taiz salient, which for many years was one of the most staunch sectors of the front, is rapidly disappearing. The Saudis have effectively lost several brigades, along with all their weapons and equipment. By the end of the week, expect extensive Houthi videos from the liberated areas, featuring trophies, prisoners, dead, and the like. During the offensive, the houses of the "speaker" of the Yemeni parliament and the house of the "president" of Yemen (who is hiding in Saudi Arabia) were captured.
Yesterday, the Saudis and their proxies tried to launch a major offensive to somehow alleviate the situation in Taiz. Attacks were launched in the area of Marib and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. In Marib, everything was limited to the capture of a small village in the desert. At the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a mechanized brigade quickly advanced towards Mokha and even reached the outskirts of Dhubab airport, but then Houthi reinforcements arrived and the invaders fled to their original positions with losses.
Big problems will begin for them after the Houthis finish with Taiz and begin to transfer their freed forces for new attacks. Against the backdrop of the Saudi military disaster, the Mecca Pact was activated - Turkey and Pakistan will begin to transfer troops to Saudi Arabia.
Will they directly intervene in the mountain war in Yemen - we'll see soon enough. It's also known that the Saudis are already receiving support from the US and Britain, who have sent additional military advisers and are assisting in the bombing of Yemen.
The Houthis, meanwhile, continue to retaliate against the Saudi bombings, targeting refineries, oil pipeline pumping stations, oil storage facilities, and airports. The Houthis also declared Saudi airspace no longer safe for flights (except in the Mecca and Medina areas).
Ironically, Saudi Arabia provoked all of this. In the summer, it shelled Sana'a airport when an Iranian plane landed there. This destroyed the fragile ceasefire and led to a resumption of high-intensity warfare, during which the Saudis have already suffered two military disasters in a month, as well as damage to their oil industry. The current hypocritical whimpers from Riyadh that the Houthis have destroyed the negotiation process are not... They're worth a damn.
Bin Salman underestimated the Houthis and is now paying for it.
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