Yemeni Army Spokesperson says "An important statement from the Yemeni Armed Forces at 17:50 local time / 15:50 BST

The teased timing matters because the crude and tanker complex has been trading these announcements for an extended period, and the established pattern is that confirmed claims of successful strikes on commercial vessels move freight rates, war-risk insurance premia, and rerouting volumes first, with the crude futures response conditioned on whether anything actually hit the water rather than on the rhetoric itself. The distinction that has mattered historically is between claimed and verified: unconfirmed claims have tended to fade within the session, while attacks corroborated by shipping agencies or coalition forces have sustained longer rerouting regimes via the Cape and tighter effective tanker supply. Follow-ons to watch are maritime security bulletins, coalition military responses, which on previous occasions have come in the form of strikes on launch sites, and any indication the statement concerns a ceasefire arrangement rather than an escalation, since Houthi statements have occasionally carried de-escalatory content tied to the wider regional track. Until the statement lands, the headline is a scheduled-event risk rather than information.