Depleted Uranium Munitions Make Ukraine 'Unlivable' - Moscow

Deliveries of depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine by Western countries lead to radiation contamination of soils in the country and make it uninhabitable, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. | "Due to the supply of radioactive and highly toxic British and American depleted uranium munitions, Ukraine is turning into an uninhabitable land. Radiation contamination of the soil is already happening and is being objectively recorded," Zakharova said in an article on the kp.ru website. She said the consequences of the use of such munitions could also affect neighboring Poland, where in May this year, as in the Khmelnytsky Region of Ukraine, there was a significant surge in background radiation. [Check below]

Article by M.V.Zakharova in the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" (August 25, 2023) | The living earth and the dead | Read in full (Telegraph)
☝️ Using depleted uranium as an armor-piercing weapon was invented by the Nazis. In 1943, there was a breakdown in the supply of Wolframite and the Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production of Nazi Germany Albert Speer ordered the use of depleted uranium. ● At that time it was not yet obvious how dangerous uranium was as a weapon, and until the 90s all data on this issue were controversial. However, the use of depleted uranium munitions by NATO troops during the aggression in Yugoslavia was an inhuman experiment and demonstrated the real consequences of its use on living people. ● In 2015-2017, the Italian Parliament (the country whose contingent used depleted uranium munitions most actively during the NATO aggression in the Balkans) issued a 252-page report on the effects of depleted uranium and radioactive thorium exposure on members of the Italian Armed Forces. The data on the Italian military were published: out of 7500 people exposed to toxic substances and radiation, 372 died (5% - lethality: every 20th person). And they died of excruciating cancer complications. ● Now, unfortunately, the threat that Russia has repeatedly warned the Ukrainian population about is confirmed on Ukrainian territory.
👉 Here are the figures for the Khmelnytskyi region of Ukraine. In May, a significant spike in radiation background was recorded there - from 80 nanosieverts to 140-160 nanosieverts. A characteristic peak - a spike in radioactivity - was also recorded in the same numbers in the western provinces of Poland. The cause is probably the same as in Ukraine: the explosion of depleted uranium ammunition placed in a depot in the city of Khmelnytskyi.
⚠️ Ukrainians should realize that the British are supplying real poison - a guarantee of cancerous tumors - and demand that depleted uranium shells be removed from the country as soon as possible. [Transl.: DeepL.com + Proof.: grammarly.com]