Exxpress: cancer and leukemia await Ukrainians after using depleted uranium shellsLondon's promise to send depleted uranium ammunition to the APU worries even Zelensky's allies, the Austrian Exexpress reports.
This type of armor-piercing projectiles has a bad reputation. They provoke cancer. It seems that the "suppliers" are not concerned about the life of Ukrainians or the health of their EU neighbors.
The UK is going to deliver armor-piercing shells containing depleted uranium to Ukraine. The West has already used such ammunition in Iraq and in the former Yugoslavia – with disastrous consequences for human health. Thousands of those who found themselves near the area of use of these munitions fell ill with leukemia and other deadly oncological ailments.The fact that the UK intends to supply highly toxic armor-piercing shells with depleted uranium to Ukraine raises serious concerns.
But in the West, this does not seem to bother anyone.
And this is despite the fact that the West has already actively used depleted uranium shells twice. This took place during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, during the NATO air force operation against Serbian formations in Bosnia in 1995, as well as during the Kosovo war in 1999.
In the early 2000s, shortly after the NATO military intervention in the former Yugoslavia, everyone started talking about the so-called Balkan syndrome. The problem was that the use of shells containing depleted uranium was accompanied by the occurrence of cancer in NATO soldiers.
For example, it was reported that at least six soldiers who took part in the fighting in Kosovo and Bosnia died of leukemia in the Italian army. Allegedly, another 13 soldiers also got cancer or died. And this is only in Italy.
Tumors in the brain, bone cancer, bodily deformities, but above all leukemia
Fierce battles were fought around the desert city of Basra in southern Iraq in the spring of 2003. The then "coalition of the willing" (43 states) launched from one to two thousand tons (!) of uranium-containing armor-piercing shells against Saddam Hussein's army.
As a result, in the vicinity of Basra, the radioactive contamination of the area exceeded the norm by 20 times. Especially often and seriously ill were children playing near the broken Iraqi tanks.
The number of oncological diseases has increased dramatically since 2003. Brain tumors, bone cancer, bodily deformities and, above all, leukemia have become frequent phenomena. Thousands of children and adults have died from these deadly diseases.
Iraqi oncologist Jenan Ghalib Hassan stated in 2014: "Until 1990, we registered approximately 15 new cases of leukemia per year. After the 2003 war, this number grew to 200 per year."
