Ex-president of Yemen Saleh offered to Russia 'all Yemen's facilities'

Monday, 22 August, 2016 - 13:45

In a TV interview today, Yemen's ex-president, Ali Abdullah Saleh,  invited Russian military to Yemen.

He talked of reactivating old Yemeni agreements with the Soviet Union and offfered "all the facilities" of Yemen's bases, ports and airports to Russia.

Saleh supported Russian and Irani  joined efforts in Syria, where Russian forces together with the Syrian army are combating terrorists.