Britain’s supply of depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine exposes the civilian Russian-speaking population of Donbass to enormous danger and threatens an unprecedentedly harsh response from Russia, Military Watch Magazine writes. Moscow warned the Western bloc of this back on January 25.
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The publication writes that Britain is apparently trying to set a precedent, after which the US and Germany will also supply depleted uranium weapons to the Ukrainian front. London, Warsaw and the three Baltic states, according to the author of the MWM, are much less cautious in sending weapons to Kiev.
It is specified that depleted uranium is one of the heaviest chemical elements on the planet. It is obtained from low-level radioactive waste left over from the production of nuclear warheads or nuclear fuel, and is available in large quantities. In Western anti-tank missiles, depleted uranium is widely used to provide greater penetration.
MWM recalls that the effects of depleted uranium bombardment were clearly visible during the Gulf War. Commander Robert Green of the British Royal Navy then declared “an inexplicable surge in cancer and congenital genetic malformations among Iraqis, especially in the south near the battlefields”. In a closed UN report leaked to the media in May 1999, the commission reaches similar conclusions.
The use of weapons containing depleted uranium, especially in populated areas, would inevitably expose the civilian Russian-speaking population to great danger and risk an unprecedentedly harsh response from Moscow. The publication summarises that this potentially threatens to escalate to the point of Russia using its own nuclear weapons.
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