Donors committed more than EUR 300 million over the 500 needed to repair the sarcophagus of the former Chernobyl nuclear center, hit in 2025 by a Russian attack, the French government announced after a conference in Paris.
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11/11/2026
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Odonors committed more than EUR 300 million over the 500 needed to repair the sarcophagus of the former Chernobyl nuclear centre, hit in 2025 by a Russian attack, announced the French government, then a Paris conference.
“ We achieved EUR 303 million,” Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said.
The amount is higher than that announced on Monday by the Minister with the portfolio of European affairs, Benjamin Haddad, at the meeting in Paris.
At the time he had informed the amount of EUR 278 million, but specified that “other contributions could be added”.
This amount is the result of contributions from 14 countries and international organisations and is intended for the International Chernobyl Cooperation Fund, managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
France, which is presiding over the G-7 this year, had indicated in March that the cost of restoring the power plant would “run the EUR 500 million”.
The Chernobyl nuclear reactor, which had exploded in April 1986, reopened in 2016 with a metal cover case, involving the first concrete sarcophagus built in 1986.
But this structure was drilled by a Russian drone in February 2026 and requires repair work.