British Minister of State for Defense Annabel Goldie said on Tuesday that London would provide Ukraine with armor piercing shells for the Challenger 2 main battle tanks it has decided to send to Kiev, including depleted uranium ammunition.
Today it became known that the United Kingdom, through its deputy head of the ministry of defense, announced not only the supply of tanks to Ukraine, but also shells with depleted uranium.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said, that it seems that the West really decided to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian, not in words, but in deed.
His comments came after meetings with a delegation of high-level Chinese officials, including Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Later in the day, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu warned the United Kingdom that there would be few red lines left uncrossed if it delivered on its promise to give Ukraine depleted uranium weapons.
Depleted uranium is a byproduct of the uranium refining process composed of uranium-238, which is not useful for generating nuclear chain reactions but which is extremely dense and used to make armor-piercing ammunition.
However, it still possesses radioactive properties that can be very harmful to humans and is highly toxic, making it a dangerous weapon long after the engagement in which it was fired. In Syria this resulted in ghost towns north of the Euphrates.
Sites in Iraq and Yugoslavia which US military used depleted uranium to attack have been associated with increases in birth defects and rare forms of cancer associated with exposure to radioactive materials, including depleted uranium and related radioactive isotopes.
While Moscow has repeatedly warned about the creeping danger of some kind of nuclear exchange as a result of NATO’s support for Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, Western governments and media have tried to spin such warnings as being threats about the use of nuclear weapons.
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However, Putin has since made it explicitly clear that Moscow intends to maintain its no-first-use policy regarding nuclear weapons.
Russia launched its special operation in Ukraine in February 2022 after years of negotiations with Kiev and NATO failed to yield a situation that respected Moscow’s security red lines.
This point of view refers most especially regarding Ukraine’s prospective membership in the NATO alliance and the possibility of NATO weapons being stationed on Russia’s borders. The operation aims to neutralize that possibility.
Sputnik / ABC Flash Point News 2023.
Making comments on such moves from the collective West is wasting of time. They, the Brits, Americans, French and Poles (in particular) have been asking for it for a long time. Let’s them get it all. They exhausted all of Russians’ resources of patience. The conscious won’t be hunting the people of Russia. Their cause is just.
Media trolls out in full force just shows the West is scared of whats to come. Think twice about DU shells a country!
Enough is Enough ! This time Putin should allow the Russian DOD to launch an Avangard Missile to any UK military base as a warning. This kind of crime should not be allowed and the Russians should not wait, as soon as it comes to Ukraine, it should be destroyed. No mercy for the Brits.
High probability they are already using weapons with depleted uranium ammunition.