Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Tuesday condemned Great Britain’s intention to send ammunition containing depleted uranium to Ukraine, accusing it of a “Yugoslav scenario”, reports the TASS agency.

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“These projectiles not only kill, but pollute the environment and cause cancer in people living in the region. It is naive to think that only those against whom all these munitions will be used will become victims. NATO soldiers, especially Italians, were the first to suffer in Yugoslavia. Then they tried for a long time to get compensation from NATO for the lost health. But their requests were rejected,” she wrote on her Telegram account, News.ro reports.

“When will Ukraine wake up? I do not mean the dependents from Bankova (the staff of the President of Ukraine – no). I mean those who are still able to think. Their benefactors are poisoning them,” Maria Zakharova added, reports the TASS agency.

Zakharova commented on this opinion in response to a question that sounded on Monday in the House of Lords of Great Britain. Lord Hilton asked the Ministry of Defense “whether any of the munitions currently being supplied to Ukraine contain depleted uranium.”

In response, Baroness Annabelle Goldie, who is secretary of state at the Ministry of Defence, said: “In addition to providing a squadron of Challenger 2 main battle tanks to Ukraine, we will provide ammunition, including armor-piercing shells containing depleted uranium. . Such ammunition is very effective for destroying tanks and modern armored vehicles.”

Russian mass media submit statements of a Serbian lawyer who “defends the interests of victims of depleted uranium in lawsuits against NATO”

The official Russian press insists on this topic. The TASS news agency is also publishing testimony on Tuesday from a “Serbian expert,” lawyer Srdjan Aleksic, who is said to be preparing to file more than 2,500 complaints against NATO over what he claims are the effects of NATO’s 1999 depleted uranium bombings. Intervention in Kosovo. He warns that the use of shells with depleted uranium in Ukraine will end in “cancer outbreaks throughout Europe.”

Serbian lawyer Srdjan Aleksic, writes TASS, defends the interests of victims of depleted uranium in lawsuits against NATO. “The use of depleted uranium projectiles creates uranium dust that will spread throughout Europe and lead to cancer outbreaks. The consequences of depleted uranium are catastrophic for humanity; this is a crime against the entire population of the Earth. Bombs with depleted uranium will have a long-lasting effect – if such bombs are dropped on the territory of Ukraine, they will operate for 4-5 billion years, which is the period of decay of uranium. This means that the depleted uranium that will be used in Ukraine will remain there forever, for our descendants and children,” Aleksych told TASS.

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