Five buses of Russian nationals arrived from Syria at an airport in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, waiting for their flight back home, the National News Agency reported Tuesday.

No diplomats or embassy staffers were among the Russian nationals, who were mostly women and children, said the report, adding that they crossed the Masnaa border point around noon on Tuesday.

Two Russian planes landed earlier Tuesday at the airport for transporting them home, which the Russian Embassy in Damascus said were not part of a large-scale evacuation plan as some media put it.

Russia said this operation was launched upon the demand of its citizens in Syria who wished to leave the violence-torn country.