Russia’s state nuclear company Rosatom evacuated a further 198 of its staff from Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant on Saturday, Russian news agencies report.
According to a diplomatic source cited by Israel’s Kan broadcaster, senior IDF officials are coordinating with Moscow to secure the safe passage outside Iran for Russian nationals who worked at the site.
Today’s evacuations had been planned before the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a post on X earlier that one of the plant’s physical protection staff was killed by a projectile fragment and that a building on site was affected by shockwaves and fragments.
Russian news agencies cite Rosatom chief Alexei Likhachev as saying that developments near the plant were unfolding in line with the worst-case scenario.
Likhachev says that the killed staff member was an Iranian national.
Rosatom informed Russian President Vladimir Putin on the situation surrounding the plant, the TASS news agency cited Likhachev as saying.
Rosatom has been evacuating staff from the plant since the Iran war broke out at the end of February.
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