Russia's government has finished evacuating Russians from Libya as the last group of evacuees arrived in Moscow on Wednesday, the Emergency Situations Ministry said.
The 126 Russians were brought to Moscow by an Emergency Situations Ministry aircraft from Malta, where they had been taken from the North African country by ferry. Also, 21 citizens of other member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States arrived in the Russian capital aboard the same Ilyushin Il-62 plane, the ministry’s press service told Interfax.
Altogether Russia evacuated more than 500 people, including 467 Russian nationals, from Libya. Emergency Situations Ministry aircraft have made eight flights to the Libyan capital, Tripoli, two flights to the Libyan city of Sirte, and one flight to Malta.
