15 donor countries pledged to allocate 278 million euros to repair the sarcophagus of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
This was announced by the French Minister for European Affairs Binyamin Hadad following the conference in Paris.
This amount is a little more than half of the 500 million euros needed. Other donations may be posted later. According to the French Minister of Economy, Roland Lesciur, they plan to collect the entire amount required by next spring.
The metal shelter, installed in 2016 above the first concrete sarcophagus of the destroyed fourth power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, was damaged as a result of an unmanned aerial vehicle attack on February 14, 2025.