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)

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