The plane which broke the no-fly zone imposed by the Saudi-led coalition was carrying humanitarian aid for the people of Yemen, including food and relief aid.
The last planes Russia has sent to Yemen were in July, with almost 46 tons of aid aboard.
The humanitarian crisis in Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition is bombing in the country, has been identified by the United Nations [UN] as one of the world’s worst, with 80 percent of the country’s population on the brink of famine.
Since March 26, a Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States has been carrying out a military aggression by launching airstrikes on Yemen in a bid to restore power to the fugitive former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia.
