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"Britain will send uranium shells to Ukraine", Putin: They are nuclear weapons, Russia will react

2023-03-22 07:58:41Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
"Britain will send uranium shells to Ukraine", Putin: They are nuclear
Russian President Vladimir Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Moscow will be forced to retaliate if the UK provides Ukraine with armor-piercing uranium tank ammunition.

"The United Kingdom announced not only the supply of tanks to Ukraine, but also shells with depleted uranium. If this happens, Russia will be forced to react," Putin told reporters after talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in the Kremlin. "If all this happens, Russia will have to respond accordingly, given that the West collectively has already started using weapons with a nuclear component," Putin said, without elaborating.

Depleted uranium is a byproduct of the nuclear enrichment process used to produce nuclear fuel or nuclear weapons. Its importance is suitable for use in armor piercing rounds as it helps them penetrate steel easily.

The United Nations Environment Program has described this munition as "chemically and radiologically toxic heavy metal".

The UK Ministry of Defense dismissed Putin's warning on Tuesday, saying armor-piercing shells had been standard equipment for decades and had nothing to do with nuclear weapons or capabilities.

The ministry accused Russia of deliberate disinformation for describing the munition as a "weapon with a nuclear component".

"Russia knows this, but is deliberately trying to misinform," the British ministry said.
The Institute for the Study of War, a US-based think tank, said on Wednesday that Putin had portrayed the munitions as escalating to deter Western security assistance, despite the shells containing no fissile or radiological material.


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