Moscow claimed there was a 'nuclear component' to depleted uranium munitions, which are used by the armed forces of countries including Russia.
Russia has routinely used the depleted uranium tank rounds that Moscow said had a"nuclear component" when donated by the United Kingdom to Ukraine, although their use in Russia's current campaigns remains unconfirmedOn March 20, the U.K. minister of State for Defense, Annabel Goldie, said the U.K. will be"providing ammunition including armor piercing rounds which contain depleted uranium.
"Such rounds are highly effective in defeating modern tanks and armored vehicles," Goldie said in a written statement.ussian President Vladimir Putin saying there was a"nuclear component"But the British armed forces have"used depleted uranium in its armor piercing shells for decades," a U.K. Ministry of Defense spokesperson said.
"It is a standard component and has nothing to do with nuclear weapons or capabilities," the spokesperson said."Russia knows this, but is deliberately trying to disinform."Russia also maintains its own stocks of DU munitions. A U.S. Defense Department spokesperson told the Associated Press that the U.S. along with other nations,"have long possessed depleted uranium rounds as well, including Russia.
"Of course, the Russians use it [DU] extensively as well," Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, who previously commanded U.K. and
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