Mike Stone – Reuters Sept 1, 2023
The Biden administration will for the first time send controversial armor-piercing munitions containing depleted uranium to Ukraine, according to a document seen by Reuters and separately confirmed by two U.S. officials.
The rounds, which could help destroy Russian tanks, are part of a new military aid package for Ukraine set to be unveiled in the next week. The munitions can be fired from U.S. Abrams tanks that, according to a person familiar with the matter, are expected be delivered to Ukraine in the coming weeks.
One of the officials said that the coming aid package will be worth between $240 million and $375 million depending on what is included.
The value and contents of the package were still being finalized, the officials said. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Although Britain sent depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine earlier this year, this would be the first U.S. shipment of the ammunition and will likely stir controversy. It follows an earlier decision by the Biden administration to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine, despite concerns over the dangers such weapons pose to civilians.
The use of depleted uranium munitions has been fiercely debated, with opponents like the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons saying there are dangerous health risks from ingesting or inhaling depleted uranium dust, including cancers and birth defects.
A by-product of uranium enrichment, depleted uranium is used for ammunition because its extreme density gives rounds the ability to easily penetrate armor plating and self-ignite in a searing cloud of dust and metal.
While depleted uranium is radioactive, it is considerably less so than naturally occurring uranium, although particles can linger for a considerable time.
The United States used depleted uranium munitions in massive quantities in the 1990 and 2003 Gulf Wars and the NATO bombing of former Yugoslavia in 1999.
The U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, says that studies in former Yugoslavia, Kuwait, Iraq and Lebanon “indicated that the existence of depleted uranium residues dispersed in the environment does not pose a radiological hazard to the population of the affected regions.”
Still, the radioactive material could add to Ukraine’s massive post-war clean-up challenge. Parts of the country are already strewn with unexploded ordnance from cluster bombs and other munitions and hundreds of thousands of anti-personnel mines.
The Wall Street Journal reported in mid-June the U.S. was considering sending depleted uranium rounds to Ukraine.
Recent weapons aid packages for Ukraine have included artillery, air defense missiles and ground vehicles as Ukraine’s counteroffensive grinds on. Reuters was unable to determine what else the package contained besides the depleted uranium rounds.
Funding authorization for the aid package comes through the Presidential Drawdown Authority, which authorizes the president to transfer articles and services from U.S. stocks without congressional approval during an emergency. The material will come from U.S. excess inventory.
The security assistance for Ukraine since the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022 has been more than $43 billion.
When the US Nazis were building base in Iraq, they would bulldozer the top soil and take it way, due to DU contamination.
Then we have the remarkably high birth defect in US
military babies, again, due to DU contamination.
We here alot on here about culling the thicko sheeple, but you know, this is one move that will curtail sheeple numbers, because if they contaminate the land, it becomes useless.
And maybe this is a deliberate Nazi policy to make sure Russia doesn’t benefit from the land.
both zelenski the ukrainian poof and
Nuteyaho the israeli psychopath
are pushing the US senate for many more milions
while American citizens sleep on the streets and eat out of bins
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/09/02/710119/-US-sending-depleted-uranium-munitions-to-Ukraine
The most dangerous person in the world right now is Joe Biden. The Americans must get this man, this demented corrupt man out of power, and put in place someone who can speak intelligently to Putin.
At college there were a couple of kids who were disruptive just for attention
is there anyone who could please speak to carl jones ?
thanks
The only political organisation I am a member of is the Stop the War Coalition – and the only other ‘political ‘ organisation I donate to is the pro-life Students for Life of America – it’s a no-brainer – defending life both within the womb and after birth.
Yet the former is classified as ‘left wing’, the latter as ‘right wing’.
Politics is Bunk.
‘The United States used depleted uranium munitions in massive quantities in the 1990 and 2003 Gulf Wars and the NATO bombing of former Yugoslavia in 1999.’
This is Reuters reporting the above, not Jon Pilger.
‘The U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, says that studies in former Yugoslavia, Kuwait, Iraq and Lebanon “indicated that the existence of depleted uranium residues dispersed in the environment does not pose a radiological hazard to the population of the affected regions.”
So that’s alright then.
‘The security assistance for Ukraine since the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022 has been more than $43 billion.’
All the above isn’t ‘assistance’, it is the USA waging war against Russia, abetted by the United Nations.
Trump winning the US Election is the last chance for Peace.
He is ‘Right Wing’, as the NATO ‘Hawks’ were dubbed back in the 1980s, when the Left were siding with Russia and the meme was a ‘Gone with the Wind’ Poster featuring a Mushroom Cloud, Reagan and Thatcher.
Puppet Biden’s regime is the most Left Wing Presidency in America’s history.
Politics is Bunk and that and the MSM turns ordinary people into clueless passive psychopaths who see Death as an unreal abstraction.
@Stephen John Jones St Albans
Good luck with that. I will bet my last dollar that Carl Jones is Mossad/Sayanim. Any time there is an article mentioning the Jew, he’s silent and absent from the conversation. If he does comment
he brings out the nazi card.
Bidin doesn’t want anything but his ice cream and his 10%. He can’t remember his name without a prompter.
The 300 families of Jews are in complete control. But not for long.
Bidin doesn’t want anything but his ice cream and his 10%. He can’t remember his name without a prompter.
The 300 families of Jews are in complete control. But not for long.
They are letting you know that a W.W.3 is coming your way, but it’s not going to go the way they plan. Not at all!
Three weeks, and then it can come anytime during this last 31/2 years. Hope it’s tomorrow.
please rixon delete that twat carl jones he makes my arse twitch
i dont know is hes a poof
but hes sure not right in the head
There is a illegal murderer, second murder 5 years apart of a 33 year old woman with two kids 2 and 3 years ok making a run for it in PENSYLVANIA tonight.
Jewish democrats policies make it a breeze to get free bond if you’r white
Slap in the face to an american citizen, nothing Bidin will do about it!
But Yahwey is coming soon, then we’ll see!
I mostly trust that Putin is making the right moves in aftermath of Nuland’s 2014 slut-cookies, as evident by net results:
• Russia gained important territories through referendum and special military ops, now consolidated under impenetrable defense lines
• Russian losses, both manpower and hardware are minimal as opposed of mind boggling attrition on Jewkraine end
• USA and Europe military reserves are catastrophically depleted and none of them are able to threaten even the sh¡thole countries, let alone the big boys Russia and China
• Russian economy is booming and its financial independence is assured in contrast to the entire Jew West sliding into the Bronze age.
There is just one more thing that Putin can do, must do in order to avoid full nuclear exchange with the jew-operated USA and it is a simple enough deal:
Openly threaten global parasite war mongers, namely, the Jews, whereby the first wave of Sarmats will pinpoint the most intense centers of infestation—bring the War For Jews to them, let them taste their medicine for change.
Instead of War For Jews, let’s have War TO Jews.
Watch the peace break out instantly as soon as the fiat 6 million becomes potential real 6 million for change.
Why is Putin ignoring this very clear way to permanent world peace?
Every nation on earth collects both good and bad Karmas, just as individuals do. Therefore, the spiritual basis for any war, including that which is occurring now in Ukraine, is the existential Karmas collected over time by human beings in the countries involved in the war. One might then assert with relative confidence that wars transpire in order to satisfy Karmas or to pay spiritual debts.
The very painful suffering transpiring as a consequence of war can turn bad Karmas into ashes and thus ironically relieve the sufferer of some spiritual debts. Let’s keep in mind the sufferer in the process of paying a spiritual debt is a deathless spirit that returns to the expansive, infinite astral sea when its body dies. The body itself is little more than the outer-most garment, worn by the spirit for purposes of manifestation on earth; it is simply removed when it is no longer useful. When it is removed, the spirit departs to the astral sea where it rests peacefully until it is equipped with another suitable garment for manifestation.
That spirit whose body dies in painful Kali conflict is not permitted to reincarnate until such time as its Karmas line up mathematically with certain cosmic rays. As such, human births can be difficult; they are certainly not automatic.
Why then must the sufferer, whose body dies in war, return again to the earth in a different garment only to endure more, seemingly inexplicable, suffering and eventual death? Because war injury would not typically relieve one of all one’s bad Karma, one is thus bound to the relentlless birth-death cycle and must return to the earth to satisfy all remaining Karmas.
@ LOBRO
this golem Putin never will do striking
against his jewish masters !
This DU is yet another heinous war crime by the USA and Joe Biden and his staff of jews.
And it means they now have admitted they lost the war, and are poisoning the ground.
If I can’t have it neither can you.
When is Russia going to nuke Wrathchilds, London, DC, NYC and Tel Aviv?