(CNN) -- Moscow has responded to the kidnapping of eight employees of a Russia power consortium working in Baghdad by announcing the evacuation of more than 800 contractors from Iraq.
On Tuesday, Coalition Provisional Authority spokesman Dan Senor said 40 people from 12 countries were being held hostage in Iraq.
Three Russians and five Ukranians were kidnapped in Iraq on Monday then later freed.
The abductors did not make contact with their company, Inter Energo Servis, and had made no demands, executive director Alexander Rybinsky said.
According to the company Web site, IES has 365 employees in Iraq and has contracts to repair power plants in Nasiriya, in southern Iraq, and Baghdad.
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