SANA’A/Yemen/, July 15. /TASS/. Two Russian planes of the Emergencies Ministry are evacuating citizens of Russia, former Soviet states and other countries seeking to leave the conflict-ridden Yemen, a ministry official said on Wednesday.

"Russia’s Emergencies Ministry in cooperation with the Russian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday evacuates citizens from Sana’a who have wished to leave the zone of the armed conflict in Yemen," a deputy director of the ministry’s department for international cooperation, Alexander Tomashov, said.

Registration of these citizens is currently underway at the airport in Sana’a.