The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission notes that it is a “very specialized protection” and says evacuations is the most effective measure because it “protects the whole body from all radionuclides and all exposure pathways.”
In a video address to the nation early Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on Ukrainians to keep up their resistance but didn’t comment on whether the Russians have seized any cities.
“They will have no peace here,” Zelenskyy said, calling on the Russian soldiers to “go home” and describing them as “confused children who have been used.” He said that for Ukrainians this was a patriotic war that won’t end until the Russians have been driven out.
“Wherever they go they will be destroyed,” Zerenskyy said. “They will not have one quiet moment. The occupiers will receive only one thing from Ukrainians – resistance. Fierce resistance.”
Many of the same European nations that turned away refugees from the Middle East, Africa and Asia in the past are now largely welcoming refugees from Ukraine.
“It’s great that Europe is being welcoming toward Ukrainian refugees. That should be the response. But it would be even better if that response was applied across the board toward all refugees who are fleeing persecution and war,” said Nell Gabiam, an associate professor at Iowa State University who studies forced migration.
