{"id":221295,"date":"2025-06-28T12:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T12:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/221295\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T12:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T12:19:11","slug":"ukraine-to-receive-46-million-for-repairs-to-chornobyl-sarcophagus-after-russian-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/221295\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine to receive $46 million for repairs to Chornobyl sarcophagus after Russian strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukraine will receive \u20ac42.5 million ($45.7 million) from international partners to repair the protective arch over the Chornobyl nuclear plant’s destroyed reactor, Environment and Natural Resources Minister Svitlana Hrynchuk announced on June 26.<\/p>\n

A Russian Shahed-type drone struck<\/a> the New Safe Confinement over Chornobyl’s destroyed 4th reactor on February 14. <\/p>\n

The structure built to contain radioactive material was damaged, no serious radiation leaks were caused.<\/p>\n

France pledged \u20ac10.6 million ($11.4 million), the United Kingdom committed \u20ac6.9 million ($7.4 million), and the European Commission contributed \u20ac25 million ($26.9 million) toward the repairs.<\/p>\n

“This is further evidence that Ukraine does not face its challenges alone, but has reliable friends,” Hrynchuk wrote on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The funding was announced at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) headquarters in London during a meeting of the Chornobyl International Cooperation Account Assembly of Contributors \u2013 the governing body of the fund created to address Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant issues.<\/p>\n

Ukraine has already surveyed the building’s structure and completed preparatory work, Hrynchuk said. In March, \u20ac400,000 ($430,000) was allocated from the special fund for this purpose.<\/p>\n

The assembly discussed plans for temporary repairs and further work to fully restore the arch’s integrity and functionality.<\/p>\n

Chornobyl was the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster<\/a> in 1986, contaminating areas across Ukraine, Belarus<\/a>, and Russia<\/a>. <\/p>\n

After an protective structure was built over the destroyed reactor to contain radioactive material<\/a> in the months following the disaster, the current arch, an international project built as a more permanent solution, was completed in 2017.<\/p>\n

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Chornobyl isn\u2019t safe anymore… again<\/p>\n

Chornobyl disaster occurred in the early hours of April 26, 1986, in Soviet Ukraine. Nearly 39 years after the worst nuclear disaster in history, Russia\u2019s brazen attack on the $2 billion New Safe Confinement (the sarcophagus enclosing the destroyed reactor) in February 2025 poses a new potential radioactive danger as engineers race to repair the damage. The Kyiv Independent\u2019s Kollen Post dives into why the restoration is not as simple as it may seem.<\/p>\n

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