Wed Mar 22, 2023 – 11:24 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — During a joint announcement with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian leader Vladimir Putin broke off from discussion of a deepening bilateral partnership to warn that Russia will be “forced to react” to news the U.K. is supplying depleted uranium shells to Ukraine.
His remarks refer to the British plans to send Challenger 2 tanks along with a type of shell which makes use of depleted uranium, a byproduct of nuclear processing, and one which has been described by the United Nations Environment Program as a “chemically and radiologically toxic heavy metal.”
Depleted uranium was widely suspected to have been the cause of the mysterious Gulf War Syndrome, a still-unexplained malady suffered by up to 25 percent of coalition troops in a theater which saw extensive use of depleted uranium ammunition. Studies have vindicated its use, disclaiming any link between the use of dense nuclear waste and the large-scale outbreak of a hitherto unknown disease, for which there is still no agreed cause.
Despite many reports to the contrary, it is rare for the Russian president to use the n-word. With the world’s largest nuclear arsenal at
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