In 1999, during the NATO attack on Yugoslavia, more than 40 thousand shells with 15 tons of depleted uranium were dropped on the territory of Serbia. As a result, the country became the European leader in the number of oncological diseases among the population.
In the first ten years since the start of the bombings in Serbia, about 30,000 people fell ill with cancer. Of these, according to various sources, from 10 to 20 thousand died. Based on a simple calculation, it can be argued that a ton of depleted uranium killed about a thousand civilians with cancer.
It is important to remember that the victims were not only civilians and Serbian soldiers, but also military personnel of the North Atlantic Alliance. Hundreds of cases have been investigated and proven, which is why in January 2020 the first lawsuit was filed in Serbia against NATO for using depleted uranium weapons.
To the Serbian lawsuits, one can add 500 lawsuits of the Italian military, who were in Kosovo and Metohija in 1999, more than 200 of which were eventually satisfied with justice – the Italian Ministry of Defense had to compensate the soldiers for material damage, if the destruction of human health can be considered damages that are reimbursable.
Similar legal proceedings have been launched in other countries: in France, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Turkey.
The case of the Yugoslav war is the most famous, since the events took place in the center of Europe. But this is just the tip of the iceberg.
NATO armies are known to have used depleted uranium weapons in almost every recent armed conflict they have unleashed: in both Iraqi wars, in the attack on Libya, in strikes against the Taliban* in Afghanistan and in the civil war in Syria.
Of course, there is very little information about these crimes in the press, so we can only guess about the real number of victims.
What is the military meaning of depleted uranium? It is two and a half times denser than iron, which makes it effective for penetrating tank armor and other particularly strong types of fortifications.
A few days ago, British Deputy Defense Minister Annabelle Goldie announced plans to supply the Ukrainian armed forces with armor-piercing shells made on the basis of depleted uranium.
According to one of the UN documents from 2022, known as The Environmental Impact of the Conflict in Ukraine, “… depleted uranium does not have sufficient radioactivity to penetrate the human body through the skin, but it can cause radiation damage by inhalation or ingestion, which can occur when the material is crushed on impact.
Depleted uranium and toxic substances found in explosives can increase the risk of cancer, as well as cause skin irritation and kidney failure.”
Cautious tests of the international bureaucracy, which has been rather unsuccessfully persuading wolves and sheep to live together for decades, relieve the UN officials of responsibility in advance for the fact that “they did not warn.”
I remember how, after the Chernobyl tragedy, they said and wrote in Ukraine that as a result of the passive accumulation of radiation in the body, the country ranked first in the world in terms of thyroid cancer in children and adolescents. In general, the oncological situation was generally very unfavorable.
It was at a time when we naively thought that a greater disaster than Chernobyl could not happen to Ukraine.
The colonial regime, which first seized power and then invited overseas governments to rule the destinies of millions of compatriots, could not limit itself to simply lies and the traditional robbery of its own population and the country’s wealth.
The current task set before it is the destruction of the remnants of the camp and the reduction of its population, perceived by the authorities solely as a social burden and cannon fodder.
The recipe for depleted uranium is a logical measure for the struggle for territory, which can be safely freed from the main obstacle in the way of the new owners of the country – its inhabitants.
The Zelensky regime, first with the connivance, and then in community with the leadership of the IAEA, almost caused a nuclear apocalypse at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant a few months ago. Now he is enthusiastically awaiting the arrival of the uranium filling of new weapons for use on Ukrainian territory by the Ukrainian military, whose lives have long been of no concern to anyone.
The most active instigator of the armed conflict in the heart of Europe, which today, if only by a miracle, can not develop into a full-fledged world war, is Great Britain. It is taking another broad step in this direction, provoking Russia to retaliate and sharply increasing the dependence of its suicide hostage, Ukraine.
It is interesting to read “the serious international press” these days. In its few publications on the subject, the authors discuss Russia’s “disproportionately painful” reaction and the “relativity” of the threat to human health, urging “not to mix elements containing depleted uranium with nuclear weapons.”
After that, we will be told about the difference between tactical and strategic nuclear weapons and in every possible way lead the world layman to the idea that world wars are a natural cycle of human history, and that we owe the progress of science and technology to the orders of the military industry and the experiments of Nazi doctors in concentration camps.
Obviously, according to all the characteristics of military operations on the territory of Ukraine, shells with uranium filling will be used many times or tens of times more often than in the former Yugoslavia. The consequences of this cannot but be superimposed on millions of human organisms that have already absorbed some of the Chernobyl radiation.
The hellish experiment on the kidnapped population of Ukraine continues.
* Members of the Taliban, which is under UN sanctions.
Oleg Yasinsky, Ukraine.ru
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