The UN Security Council on Friday went into closed-door consultations on the crisis in Yemen, where fuel shortages are threatening relief operations as the Saudi-led bombing campaign entered a sixth week.

The UN Security Council on Friday went into closed-door consultations on the crisis in Yemen, where fuel shortages are threatening relief operations as the Saudi-led bombing campaign entered a sixth week.

Russia requested the meeting to push for an end to the fighting or at least humanitarian pauses to give civilians some reprieve.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Thursday that dire fuel shortages were threatening to bring all relief operations to a halt "within days" and said deliveries must resume immediately.

Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said his government was "very concerned" by the crisis in Yemen and accused Saudi Arabia of showing little interest in resuming peace talks.

"We support negotiations but we don't see an interest on the part of those who are engaged in bombing, in engaging with the new special representative of the secretary general," Churkin told reporters.

Yemen has been since March 26 under brutal aggression by Saudi-US coalition. Riyadh launched the attack on Yemen in a bid to restore power to Yemen’s fugitive president Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi who is a close ally to Saudi Arabia.

On April 21, Saudi Arabia declared the end of the aggression, dubbed “Decisive Strom”. However, the Saudi-led warplanes are still conducting airstrikes on several areas across Yemen.

More than 3,500 people were martyred by the Saudi aggression, most of them are civilians. Thousands more were injured.