Russian general: The Russian Armed Forces may use low-yield nuclear weapons
International organizations do not see any problems in the use of depleted uranium (DU) ammunition, which may end up in Ukraine.
A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, said captain of the medical service of the Russian Armed Forces Rafael Anikeev, assessing the information that Western tanks planned for delivery to Ukraine may be in service projectiles tipped with depleted uranium.
It is noted that, according to official statistics, the United States fired 1999 thousand units of DU ammunition into the territory of the former Yugoslavia in 31, and 1994 thousand in Bosnia in 1995–11.
“However, the World Health Organization and a number of other international organizations do not see any problems from the use of DU shells.
According to the UN Institute for Disarmament Research, depleted uranium “does not meet the legal definitions of nuclear, radioactive, toxic, chemical or incendiary weapons,” since shells with this substance in a solid core, according to UN experts, “are not designed specifically to kill or injure using a chemical or radioactive effect,” Anikeev told Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
In his opinion, this is “the height of cynicism.”
“The UN, as an international organization, must reconsider its assessments in this area and do everything possible to ban the use of DU shells in military conflicts and wars,” says the military doctor.
In turn, says retired Lieutenant General Yuri Netkachev, “shells with depleted uranium were produced during the Soviet era, are stored in warehouses and are now not used during a special military operation.”
At the same time, the general is convinced that Kiev’s use of uranium ammunition could provoke a nuclear conflict.
“As one of the retaliatory measures, the Russian army may use low- and ultra-low-yield nuclear weapons against military targets,” warns Netkachev.
Earlier, the head of the Russian delegation at the negotiations in Vienna on military security and arms control, Konstantin Gavrilov, warned that the supply of such shells for NATO heavy military equipment would be considered “as the use of dirty nuclear bombs against Russia with all the ensuing consequences.”
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