Kiev's use of depleted uranium shells would harm population for decades: Russia
The Ukrainian forces use of depleted uranium shells would do harm to the local population and contaminate their land for decades, Russia has warned.
Russia’s defense ministry said on Friday that the Ukrainians use of depleted uranium shells against Russian forces in Ukraine would not only harm the troops, but also harm the wider population and negatively affect the country’s agriculture sector for decades or even centuries.
The warning comes after Britain earlier this week announced its plan to send shells containing depleted uranium to Ukraine.
Chief of Russia's nuclear defense force warned on Friday that the use of depleted uranium in the war would have dire consequences for the local people which the US-led forces were well aware of.
“The West is well aware of the negative consequences of using depleted uranium ammunition,” Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov, head of the Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Forces of Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Kirillov said data on the use of depleted uranium by the United States and is allies in the Balkans and Iraq showed serious and lasting negative impacts on local populations and the environment.
He warned that Ukraine’s agricultural industry could suffer “for decades, if not centuries, into the future.”
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