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WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia
Source: War Monitor

The main points from Putin's interview to Pavel Zarubin:

▪️ About #depleted #uranium #DU #shells for #Ukraine:

Shells with such uranium do not belong to the category of weapons of mass destruction, but they generate radiation dust and pollute crop areas. Russia has something to answer - we have hundreds of thousands of such shells, but so far we have not used them.

▪️ On tactical nuclear weapons in #Belarus: We agreed, without violating the START Treaty, to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. On July 1, the construction of a storage facility for it will be completed there. This is not unusual - the United States has been deploying nuclear weapons in NATO countries for a long time.

▪️ About the talks with Xi Jinping:
The leader of #China is well prepared, it was interesting to talk with him, he knows the details about his country and the world economy. Xi Jinping paid much attention to Beijing's #peace plan for Ukraine. But the main focus of the talks was on the economy.

▪️ About the terrorist attacks on Nord Stream:
The president fully agrees with the conclusions of journalist Seymour Hersh about the involvement of the US intelligence services. #Denmark responded in a streamlined way to Russia about a joint survey of the Nord Stream lines, that it does not need help, and even now this survey no longer makes sense

▪️ About analogies between pension reforms in #France and #Russia:
In Russia, all preferential early retirement regimes have been preserved, but not in France, citizens there consider this approach to be excessively harsh. But the protests in France are an internal affair of this country.

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Sending #Depleted #Uranium Munitions To #Ukraine Is A #War Crime Against The Ukrainian People?

Depleted uranium is the gift that keeps on killing. Just ask the people of Iraq. Cancer rates and birth defect rates both went up exponentially after the U.S. military systematically defiled their air, water and soil with depleted uranium. And it doesn’t go away. 10 years after the invasion of Iraq, a team of scientists “detected high levels of uranium contamination in soil samples at three sites in the province of Nineveh”, and those high levels were being directly blamed for “dramatically increasing rates of childhood cancers and birth defects at local hospitals”. Under no circumstances should depleted uranium munitions ever be used in warfare, and our leaders know this. But now the western powers will be sending depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine, and this is nothing less than a war crime against the Ukrainian people.

Baroness Goldie, the UK’s Minister of State at the Ministry of Defence, created quite a stir when she publicly answered a question about depleted uranium munitions on Monday…

I cannot even begin to describe how morally wrong it is to do this.

Yes, these munitions will be used to strike Russian forces, but it is the Ukrainian people that will really suffer in the long run.

If you doubt this, just go to Google images and do a search for “depleted uranium Iraq birth defects”.

What you will see will make you want to vomit.

The same deformities will happen to countless numbers of Ukrainian children if we do not find a way to stop this.

Needless to say, the Russians clearly understand the threat. In fact, earlier this year one Russian official publicly stated that sending depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine would be the equivalent of using “dirty nuclear bombs against Russia”…

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https://news.antiwar.com/2023/01/26/white-house-refuses-to-say-if-ukraine-will-get-toxic-depleted-uranium-ammo/

White House Refuses to Say If #Ukraine Will Get #Toxic #Depleted #Uranium Ammo

Bradley Fighting Vehicles can use depleted uranium shells that are linked to cancer and birth defects in Iraq
by Dave DeCamp Posted onJanuary 26, 2023CategoriesNewsTagsIraq, Ukraine

The White House refused to say if it will provide Ukraine with Bradley Fighting Vehicles equipped with radioactive depleted uranium rounds, ammunition that is linked to cancer and birth defects.

Depleted uranium is typically created as a byproduct of producing enriched uranium and is extremely dense, making it an effective material to pierce the armor of tanks. Bradleys can be equipped with depleted uranium ammunition, which is why they are known as “tank killers.”

When asked on Wednesday if the Bradleys the US is sending to Ukraine will be equipped with depleted uranium, a senior Biden administration official said, “I’m not going to get into the technical specifics.” The official also declined to answer if the M1 Abrams tanks the US is providing Kyiv will be equipped with a depleted uranium cage.

Konstantin Gavrilov, the head of Russia’s delegation in Vienna on arms control, has warned Moscow would view the use of depleted uranium weapons in Ukraine as the use of a “dirty bomb.” Gavrilov claimed that Germany’s Leopard 2 tanks could also be equipped with depleted uranium rounds.

“In case such munitions for NATO-made heavy weapons are supplied to Kiev, we will consider that as the use of dirty nuclear bombs against Russia with all the consequences that come with it,” he said, according to the Russian news agency TASS.

Cancer and birth defects spiked in Iraq after the Gulf War, during which the US fired an estimated one million depleted uranium rounds. The US also used toxic ammunition in its 2003 invasion, and studies have found that birth defects are more common in areas where depleted uranium was used. Birth defects are still common today in the city of Fallujah.