MOSCOW – Russian officials announced Thursday they will formally request the United States and Israel guarantee a temporary halt to hostilities while Moscow withdraws additional personnel from Iran’s Bushehr nuclear facility, according to RIA news agency reports.
Alexei Likhachev, who leads Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom, stated that Moscow will coordinate evacuation routes with both Israeli and American authorities. “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,” Likhachev told RIA.
The Russian nuclear chief indicated that what he described as a “final wave of evacuation” is provisionally set for the coming week and would involve roughly 200 individuals. Russia originally constructed the Iranian nuclear facility at Bushehr, and Rosatom personnel have remained on-site to continue work on additional reactor units under development.
