IN BRIEF: Russia evacuates personnel from Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant

MOSCOW, April 7. /TASS/. A group of 175 Russian employees evacuated from Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) have taken a special flight from the Armenian capital of Yerevan to Moscow, the Russian embassy in Armenia said.

Earlier, Alexey Likhachev, director general of Russia’s Rosatom Atomic Energy Corporation, said that evacuation buses left the Bushehr facility about 20 minutes after a US strike hit the area on Saturday, and headed for the Iran-Armenia border.

TASS has gathered the key information about the evacuation of Russian energy workers.

- A group of 175 Rosatom employees who worked at the Bushehr NPP in Iran took a special flight from Yerevan to Moscow, the Russian embassy in Armenia said.

- They arrived in Armenia from Iran through the Norduz-Agarak border crossing.