- UK government announces further £5 million to support
Ukraine’s energy sector, helping provide safety and security
equipment for their civil nuclear sector
- follows £10 million announced last week to fund and help
reconnect power across the country, and a further £7 million
previously allocated to supply generators
- this builds on the ongoing UK-wide effort to support Ukraine
in the face of Russia’s brutality
The UK’s Business and Energy secretary, , announces today a £5
million support fund designated to providing safety and security
equipment to Ukraine’s civil nuclear sector, supporting the
country’s ongoing effort to stand with Ukraine.
The civil nuclear support fund will see high priority items,
which could include personal protective equipment, communications
systems, and radiation monitoring equipment, supplied to Ukraine.
This will enable the high levels of safety and security required
to be fully restored at Chernobyl and Ukraine’s other nuclear
sites following Russian attacks.
The provision of vital equipment to Ukraine also contributes to
widespread efforts to supply equipment for guard forces and to
enhance the detection of the illicit movement of materials within
Ukraine and across its borders, helping the country recover from
Russian control of Chernobyl.
Business and Energy Secretary said:
Energy systems play an indispensable role in ensuring national
security and economic resilience.
Today the UK is ramping up our support to the Ukrainian people in
their time of need by helping reconnect power across the country
and protecting the safety and security of Ukraine’s nuclear
sector, ensuring their frontline is fully equipped in the face of
Russia’s brutality.
Melinda Simmonds, UK Ambassador to Ukraine said:
Ensuring Ukraine has access to available energy will not only
make sure the economy continues to function, but will also keep
people warm and allow hospitals to provide emergency healthcare
when it’s needed.
I’m proud of all the UK is doing to support Ukraine in the face
of Russian aggression.
Today’s news follows the Foreign Secretary’s announcement last
week of a £10 million Energy Support
Fund, forming part of a package to help Ukraine defeat Putin
and rebuild the country. This fund will help keep Ukraine’s
energy system running in wartime, enabling essential repairs to
energy infrastructure and help reconnect power across the
country. The package included both immediate financial and
longer-term support for the Ukrainian people, utilising UK
expertise and British businesses to accelerate Ukraine’s economic
recovery.
Together this brings UK support for Ukraine’s energy sector to
£22 million, including the UK’s £7 million donation
of over 850 generators earlier this yearthat are already in
use, helping to power essential services such as hospitals and
shelters.
These support packages come as international partners and allies
from around the world joined together last week for the Lugano
Conference on Ukraine’s Recovery in Switzerland in a united stand
with Ukraine.
Notes to editors
The £22 million figure includes:
- the £10 million Energy Support Fund
from the Energy Resilience and Energy Security programme,
announced before the invasion. This 3-year FCDO fund
is intended to keep Ukraine’s energy systems running in wartime
and prepare for modern-era post-war reconstruction, with the
other £7 million transferred to BEIS
to supply 856 portable generators
- today’s £5 million from BEIS
allocated to support Ukraine’s nuclear sector. The United Kingdom
will procure these items of equipment and work with the
International Atomic Energy Agency to deliver them to Ukraine
