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Posted on April 2, 2026
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Add as preferred source on GoogleRussia plans to request ceasefire assurances from the US and Israel to evacuate its remaining staff from Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant, aiming to move approximately 200 personnel next week under safe corridors.
MOSCOW, April 2 (Reuters) - Russia will ask the United States and Israel to ensure a ceasefire while it evacuates more Russian staff from the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran, RIA news agency reported on Thursday.
"The travel routes will be communicated to the relevant authorities in Israel and the United States, and we will use all channels to request strict adherence to the ceasefire during the convoy’s movement," the head of Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom, Alexei Likhachev, was quoted by RIA as saying.
Likhachev said that a "final wave of evacuation" involving about 200 people is tentatively scheduled for next week. Russia built the Iranian nuclear reactor at Bushehr and Rosatom staff are working there on construction of additional units.
(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
Russia is evacuating its staff from the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran for safety reasons amid regional tensions.
Russia is asking the United States and Israel to ensure a ceasefire while it evacuates Russian staff from Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant.
The final wave of evacuation involves about 200 Rosatom staff from the Bushehr nuclear plant.
Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear corporation, built the Bushehr reactor and is constructing additional units at the site.
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