Report claims Yemen’s Houthis have a hypersonic missile

The Houthis have for weeks hinted about ‘surprises’ they plan in the Red Sea and surrounding waterways (Osamah Abdulrahman/AP)

Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim to have a new, hypersonic missile in their arsenal, Russia’s state media has reported, potentially raising the stakes in their ongoing attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and surrounding waterways.

The report by the state-run RIA Novosti news agency cited an unnamed official but provided no evidence for the claim. It comes as Moscow maintains an aggressively counter-western foreign policy amid its grinding war on Ukraine.