A total of 198 Rosatom employees evacuated from the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) are already heading toward the Iranian-Armenian border by bus, Alexey Likhachev, Rosatom Director General, said during a working visit to Yekaterinburg.

Axar.az reports, citing TASS, that "From the Bushehr plant toward the Iranian-Armenian border, 198 people, to be precise, are on buses. We very much hope that within two to three days our colleagues will safely cross nearly the entire territory of Iran and return home to our country," Likhachev said.

Earlier, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) reported that a projectile hit an area near the Bushehr NPP, killing one of the facility’s security guards. The main installations were not damaged.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emphasized that strikes on NPP sites and adjacent areas are unacceptable, as they contain equipment critical to nuclear safety.

Previously, it was announced that 200 Russian specialists evacuated from the Bushehr NPP.