Ukraine is donating radiation measuring devices and gas masks to Japan as it battles the world’s worst nuclear crisis since the Chernobyl explosion in the former Soviet territory 25 years ago. Ukraine’s government will supply 2,000 personal dosimeters and radiometers and 1,000 gas masks on Aug. 4 “at the request of the Japanese leadership,” the Ukrainian embassy in Tokyo said today in an e-mailed statement. A ceremony for the handover will be held on Aug. 9 in Fukushima city. Read more.
