The US will have to answer for the 'very sad consequences' of its decision to provide depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine, the Kremlin said
Russia has condemned a US decision to send controversial depleted uranium tank shells to Ukraine as “a criminal act”, that would increase the chance of “direct armed conflict between nuclear powers”.
US Air Force National Guard Explosive ordnance disposal techinicians prepare several contaminated and compromised depleted uranium rounds at Tooele Army Depot, Utah Depleted uranium is a byproduct of the uranium enrichment process needed to create nuclear weapons. The rounds retain some radioactive properties, but they cannot generate a nuclear reaction like a nuclear weapon would, Edward Geist, a nuclear expert and policy researcher at the US-based Rand non-profit research institution, toldThe shells sharpen on impact, which further increases their ability to tear through tank armour.
Today the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Nato’s heavy use of such ammunition in the bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 had caused a jump in cases of cancer and other diseases.
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