America gives the ammunition containing depleted uranium to the Ukrainian army.
Reuters news agency, quoting “informed sources in the US government”, announced that the US government plans to send shells containing depleted uranium to the Ukrainian army for the first time as part of the new military aid package to Ukraine.
US President Joe Biden is going to announce the delivery of this type of ammunition to Ukraine next week.
According to Reuters sources, these types of shells are fired from American Abrams tanks, and the US government expects that the shells containing depleted uranium will give the Ukrainian armed forces the ability to perform better against Russian tanks.
The value of the new US support package to the Ukrainian army will be between 240 and 374 million dollars.
At the beginning of April this year, the British Ministry of Defense also admitted that it had provided the shells containing depleted uranium to the Ukrainian army; An action that faced strong protests from Russia and human rights organizations in England.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said about sending ammunition containing depleted uranium to Ukraine: This is a serious step towards further escalation of tension. Statements by some Western representatives that there is nothing terrible, that the use of depleted uranium munitions is not prohibited anywhere, and that we are not violating any convention; It is surprising. Remember the results of depleted uranium in Yugoslavia and Iraq, when tens of thousands of civilians and NATO forces were harmed. A sharp increase in cancer and other dangerous diseases, also the soil was polluted for decades.
“Vladimir Putin,” the President of Russia, in response to the British initiative regarding the delivery of weapons with depleted uranium to Kyiv, announced: The West has decided to fight with the Russian Federation until the last Ukrainian, not in words, but in reality. If Britain delivers depleted uranium bullets to Ukraine, Russia will be forced to react.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu emphasized in this regard: that another stage has been passed, but they are becoming less and less. Moscow is carefully monitoring the situation in this regard.
Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, in response to “Annabel Goldie”, the Deputy Secretary of Defense of the United States, who said that Britain will transfer depleted uranium ammunition to Ukraine, said: “Yugoslavian scenario.” These bullets not only kill but also pollute the environment and cause cancer in people living in these lands.
