Chornobyl

Three shorter items from Europe's books.

The G7 countries have pledged two hundred and sixty million euros to repair the Chornobyl safety structure damaged in a Russian attack last year.

President Zelensky met the Belgian Prime Minister about the roughly two hundred billion euros in frozen Russian assets and came away without a breakthrough.

And the European Union has confirmed a twenty-second sanctions package is being prepared, while the Czech Prime Minister objects publicly to a hundred billion euros of budget support for Ukraine and Austria complains of so many numbers swirling around in Ukraine's accounts.