August 26, 2023. Hellas.
Maria Zakharova warned Kyiv about the dangerous consequences of using
cluster munitions, which could turn Ukraine into a country unsuitable for
living.
The bombing
of Yugoslavia with cluster munitions during the 1990s was an inhumane
experiment by NATO countries, which demonstrated the real consequences of using
such munitions on live individuals, she said in an interview with
"Komsomolskaya Pravda".
She
reminded that from 2015 to 2017, the Italian parliament published a 252-page
document explaining how dangerous the use of depleted uranium is and what kind
of consequences Italian soldiers who used this weapon in the 1990s faced.
In the areas where cluster munitions were used, the number of cancer patients
increased multiple times, and every twentieth Italian soldier who had direct
contact with the mentioned munitions died from cancer in a severe condition,
Zakharova said.
After recalling the suffering experienced by the population of the former
Yugoslavia, especially Serbia, the spokeswoman then turned her attention to the
ongoing military conflict in Ukraine and warned that the same threat now hangs
over Ukraine.
"Unfortunately, the threat that Russia has repeatedly warned the Ukrainian
population about is now being realized on Ukrainian territory. Due to the
radioactive and highly toxic American and British munitions with depleted
uranium, Ukraine is becoming a country unsuitable for living," she said,
as reported by Russia Today Balkan.
As an example, Zakharova mentioned the Khmelnytskyi region in western Ukraine,
not far from the border with Poland, which was known to house a stockpile of
cluster munitions. In that region, after an explosion at the depot in May, a
significant increase in radioactivity was observed. This is likely the reason
why increased radioactivity was also noticed in certain western parts of
Poland, she explained.
By all indications, all soil, all land under the cloud that rose from the
detonated depot, as well as the land nearby, is already contaminated with
radionuclides," Zakharova warned. According to her, a long period and a
large amount of money will be needed for the recovery of this land.
Therefore, as she stated, "Ukrainians should understand that the British
are delivering real poison to them," practically guaranteeing them
cancerous tumors. Because of this, Ukrainians must demand that munitions with
depleted uranium be removed from their country as soon as possible.
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