La Russie évacue 198 employés de la centrale iranienne de Bouchehr touchée par une frappe
Russia began evacuating 198 more employees from the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran on Saturday, after another strike on the area of the plant on Saturday, which Moscow "strongly" condemned.
"The main wave of evacuation of Rosatom employees from Iran began today as planned," said Rosatom Director General Alexei Likhachev, quoted by the TASS news agency.
The buses carrying "198 people" left for the Armenian border "about 20 minutes after" another strike on the area of the nuclear power plant, he said, adding that it was "the largest evacuation" of Russian personnel from this plant since the start of the war in the Middle East.
The site of this nuclear power plant in southern Iran was hit on Saturday by a US-Israeli strike, killing a security guard, Iranian state media reported.
Russia partly built this power plant and Russian technicians help with its operation.
"We strongly condemn this disastrous action," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement, demanding an "immediate" end to the strikes "on Iranian nuclear facilities, including the Bushehr nuclear facility."
This is the fourth time this area located on the shores of the Gulf has been targeted since the start of the Middle East war triggered by Israeli-American strikes on Iran on February 28, according to the Iranian news agency Irna.
"The probability of damage or a potential nuclear incident unfortunately only increases day by day, as this morning's events have shown," Mr. Likhachev told Russian reporters.
Several dozen Russian nationals had already been evacuated from the power plant in the early days of the war.
On March 25, 163 employees had left the site after a strike, with Mr. Likhatchev ruling out the possibility of a total departure of Rosatom employees, stating that "several dozen people" would have to remain on the site.
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