The diplomat warned the West about the consequences of the supply of ammunition with uranium to the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Delivery of Western-made uranium shells to Kyiv will be regarded by Moscow as the use of dirty nuclear bombs, Konstantin Gavrilov, head of the Russian delegation at the talks in Vienna on military security and arms control, said.
"We warn the Western sponsors of the Kiev military machine from encouraging nuclear provocations and blackmail. We know that the Leopard 2 tank, as well as the Bradley and Marder infantry fighting vehicles, are armed with uranium-core armor-piercing sub-caliber shells, the use of which leads to contamination of the area, as happened in
Yugoslavia and
Iraq . If Kiev is supplied with such shells for NATO heavy military equipment, we will consider this as the use of dirty nuclear bombs against
Russia with all the ensuing consequences," the diplomat said, speaking at the
OSCE Forum on Security Cooperation.
Western countries forced
Germany to make a decision to transfer armored vehicles to
Ukraine , Gavrilov stressed.
“First, the allies threatened Berlin with international isolation in case of refusal to transfer the Leopards. Then none other than the representative of the US State Department, Ned Price, announced “imminent news” regarding the direction of the German “beast” to Kyiv. This is how transatlantic “solidarity” is forged, — said the head of the delegation.
Berlin made a conscious choice in favor of "German tanks with crosses on their armor again attacking Russian soldiers," Gavrilov continued. He stressed that the Russian army will destroy these combat vehicles, as is now happening with the rest of NATO weapons.
As Konstantin Sivkov, doctor of military sciences, told RIA Novosti , the Leopard 2 ammunition load includes armor-piercing sub-caliber shells with depleted uranium cores. Their use leads to contamination of the area and outbreaks of cancer.
The German government announced today that the
Armed Forces of Ukraine will receive Leopard 2 tanks. At the first stage, Berlin will transfer 14 combat vehicles to Kyiv, in total it is planned to supply two battalions. In addition, Germany will remove export restrictions so that other countries that have Leopard 2 in their arsenal can transfer them to Kyiv.
The German authorities for a long time refrained from supplying this type of weaponry to Ukraine. Other Western leaders put German Chancellor
Olaf Scholz under unprecedented pressure on this issue.
In the spring of last year, Moscow sent a note to the countries of the North Atlantic Alliance due to the transfer of weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov emphasized that any cargo containing military equipment would become a legitimate target for the Russian army.
Поставки Киеву ураносодержащих снарядов западного производства Москва будет расценивать как применение грязных ядерных бомб, заявил глава российской делегации... РИА Новости, 25.01.2023
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