Russia Warns of Radioactive Cloud Floating Towards Europe as a Result of Exploded DU

“A threatening cloud of radioactive gas” sounds a bit hyperbolic, quite frankly.

What isn’t hyperbolic, however, is that using depleted uranium (DU) is going to poison the fields of the Ukraine, which I guess I’d expect people who “stand with Ukraine” to think is a bad thing.

RT:

The destruction of depleted uranium shells in Ukraine has produced a radioactive cloud which has been blown toward Western Europe, the secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolay Patrushev, has claimed. The UK has supplied this type of munition to Ukraine to be fired from British-made Challenger tanks.

The senior official revealed the purported threat during a government meeting on Friday, in which he accused the US of manipulating its allies to provide “help” to other nations that results in harm being done to the recipients.

“They ‘helped’ Ukraine this way too, applied pressure to its satellites to supply depleted uranium munitions. Their destruction resulted in a radioactive cloud moving towards Western Europe. They have detected an increase in radiation in Poland,” Patrushev stated.

Unconfirmed reports have circulated in Ukraine regarding the target of a Russian strike last Saturday, which Moscow said destroyed an ammunitions depot in the city of Khmelnitsky. According to the claims, the military facility was used to store British-provided depleted uranium shells. It has been suggested that the material may have been turned into dust by powerful explosions at the depot.

Well, it definitely was not just reports.

People have analyzed the various videos of the mushroom cloud, and determined that there are definite signs of DU. Of course, I don’t really have any knowledge on the topic, but they’re admittedly in the country, Britain announced they were sending them, and this was obviously a major target.

For those who don’t get the thing: depleted uranium comes from the process of enriching uranium in a nuclear power plant. It’s an extremely heavy metal that can pierce a lot of tank armor.

However, it is radioactive, and the use of it in ammunition causes it to create a dust.

I think radiation in general is an exaggerated risk. This is a byproduct of cold war hysteria. But it is also not good.