{"id":345951,"date":"2023-03-24T12:45:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T16:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/?p=345951"},"modified":"2023-03-24T12:27:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T16:27:51","slug":"russia-warns-of-radioactive-disaster-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/2023\/03\/russia-warns-of-radioactive-disaster-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia warns of radioactive disaster in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

from RT<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\" Depleted uranium shells promised to Kiev by the UK would \u201ccause irreparable harm\u201d to soldiers and civilians alike, Moscow says<\/p>\n

The potential use of Western-supplied depleted uranium shells by Ukraine would have a devastating impact on the country\u2019s economy and population, lasting for centuries to come, the Russian Defense Ministry warned on Friday.<\/p>\n

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Speaking at a briefing, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, who is in charge of Russia\u2019s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense Forces, issued a scathing criticism of the UK\u2019s plans to support Kiev with armor-piercing rounds containing depleted uranium.<\/p>\n

He noted that such munitions have only ever been deployed in combat by NATO countries, most notably during the Iraq War, when the US used at least 300 tons of depleted uranium.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a result, the radiation situation in the [Iraqi] city of Fallujah was much worse than in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the nuclear bombings by the United States,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Kirillov stated, recalling that Fallujah had been dubbed\u00a0\u201cthe second Chernobyl,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0while the local population suffered from a skyrocketing number of cancer cases.<\/p>\n

The West is well aware of the consequences of using such weapons, the general stressed. Even though it\u00a0\u201cwill cause irreparable harm\u201d<\/em>\u00a0to the health of Ukrainian troops and civilians,\u00a0\u201cNATO countries, in particular the UK, express a readiness to supply this type of weapon to the Kiev regime,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Kirillov stated.<\/p>\n

He warned that the use of the munitions will contaminate farmland.\u00a0\u201cIn addition to infecting its own population, this will cause tremendous economic damage to the agro-industrial complex of Ukraine\u2026 reducing any export of agricultural produce from Ukrainian territory for many decades, if not centuries to come,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the general said.<\/p>\n

The UK\u2019s plans to send depleted uranium shells to Ukraine for use with Challenger 2 battle tanks were first unveiled on Monday, prompting an outcry from the Russian Foreign Ministry, which called the move a sign of\u00a0\u201cabsolute recklessness, irresponsibility and impunity\u201d<\/em>\u00a0on the part of London and Washington.<\/p>\n

While the US has said it does not plan to support Ukraine with such ammunition, it shrugged off Russian concerns over the matter, describing depleted uranium shells as\u00a0\u201ca commonplace type of munition\u201d<\/em>\u00a0which has\u00a0\u201cbeen in use for decades.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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from RT: Depleted uranium shells promised to Kiev by the UK would \u201ccause irreparable harm\u201d to soldiers and civilians alike, Moscow says The potential use of Western-supplied depleted uranium shells by Ukraine would have a devastating impact on the country\u2019s economy and population, lasting for centuries to come, the Russian Defense Ministry warned on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[151253],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}