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Putin blasts UK move to send ammo with depleted uranium to Ukraine
Reuters ^ | March 21, 2023

Posted on 03/21/2023 11:04:18 AM PDT by Kazan

(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday condemned British plans to send tank ammunition that contains depleted uranium to Ukraine, saying Moscow would be forced to respond accordingly.

Speaking in London on Monday, Minister of State for Defence Annabel Goldie said some of the ammunition for the Challenger 2 battle tanks that Britain is sending to Ukraine includes armour piercing rounds which contain depleted uranium.

"If all this happens, Russian will have to respond accordingly, given that the West collectively is already beginning to use weapons with a nuclear component," Putin said in remarks after a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. He did not elaborate.

Russian politicians and commentators have made a series of combative remarks since the invasion of Ukraine last year, suggesting Moscow would - if necessary - be prepared to deploy its vast nuclear arsenal.

Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said the British decision left fewer and fewer steps before a potential "nuclear collision" between Russia and the West.

"Another step has been taken, and there are fewer and fewer left," he told reporters in remarks cited by domestic agencies.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: britishwarcrimes; czechoslovakia1968; desperate; donbasquagmire; failedinvasion; neocons4biden; russia; ukraine
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To: Boogieman

The globohomos always gloss over the left wing western coup that un-democratically put zelensky in power and the bombings of Russian people in eastern ukraine by zelensky before this war ever started. If Americans in Mexico were being treated like that, we would have every right and a duty to use military force to make it stop.


41 posted on 03/21/2023 1:08:07 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: TonyinLA

They don’t care about the Ukrainian people and are happy to see them die by the millions because “putin bad”. It’s insane. This war could have been avoided with peace talks that came to a reasonable resolution, but the MIC won’t allow it.


42 posted on 03/21/2023 1:10:01 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: imabadboy99

“Putin is not the one using depleted uranium.”

If not for Putin, Ukraine wouldn’t be getting any Western tanks and depleted uranium ammo, which Ukraine needs to fight Russian invaders. So yes, it’s his fault. Singularly.


43 posted on 03/21/2023 1:19:50 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: imabadboy99

“The globohomos always gloss over the left wing western coup...”

Nah, just most people that actually know the history of the situation over there don’t parrot Kremlin propaganda and expect intelligent people to swallow it uncritically.


44 posted on 03/21/2023 1:21:11 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

what is stopping them from sending regular ammo instead of toxic ammo that will cause birth defects and cancer for generations? It is SICK. And so are the globohomos. Kill the people with vaccines and toxic substances and groom the children. That’s the globohomo MIC agenda.


45 posted on 03/21/2023 1:22:47 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: imabadboy99

“what is stopping them from sending regular ammo instead of toxic ammo that will cause birth defects and cancer for generations?”

Gee, I guess they could also try to fight a war with one arm tied behind their back and blindfolded. LOL.


46 posted on 03/21/2023 1:26:21 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Kazan

Pooptin is getting more and more desperate


47 posted on 03/21/2023 1:31:00 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: imabadboy99

Putin had been subverting Ukraine ever since he took power. Read Girkin.


48 posted on 03/21/2023 1:38:02 PM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: Kazan

D.U. is mosly nontoxic unless it is areosolized, or if you go to the website.

The reason this is used is because it is cheap.


49 posted on 03/21/2023 1:43:37 PM PDT by algore
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To: Kazan

Vlad Putin is bellyaching again. F’im if he can’t take a joke. (Mick Jagger’s 1978 reply to critics of “Some Girls”/ Among them Jesse Jackson.)

How come no one has posted “Don’t poke the Bear”? Has this fallen out of style for the FR resident Putinistas?


50 posted on 03/21/2023 1:44:07 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw
Mick Jagger’s 1978 reply to critics of “Some Girls”/ Among them Jesse Jackson.



"Now, Mr. Jagger, there is only one question I want to ask you -- Jaggs. ... And you better have the answer, man, you better have the answer, since you have besmirched the character of black women. Therefore, here is my question, Jaggs."

"Where are all of these black broads, man? Hey, like, where ARE they, baby? You got any phone numbers for me, baby? ... Please send 'em to me. Thank you."

51 posted on 03/21/2023 1:48:44 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Kazan

Joe Biden and his stooge crew and supporters got everyone into this mess nobody else to blame period they own it.

Xi now has more options thanks to Biden.


52 posted on 03/21/2023 1:51:53 PM PDT by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: Kazan

“Depleted uranium and toxic substances in common explosives can cause skin irritation, kidney failure and increase the risks of cancer,” it said.”

That’ll do it!


53 posted on 03/21/2023 2:31:48 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: dennisw

If Ukraine wants to use depleted uranium munitions in their own territory against Russian invaders, it seems to me that is their decision.

If the Ukies wanted to use something highly toxic on targets in Russia, that’d be a different story, but neither part of that is true.


54 posted on 03/21/2023 3:01:50 PM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: dfwgator

Where the W.Wimmen at?


55 posted on 03/21/2023 4:35:50 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: Kazan

I don’t think Putin understands what “nuclear component” means.


56 posted on 03/21/2023 7:01:39 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: TonyinLA

some of them think it is a job, I suspect.

you saw how uniformly the talking point ‘DU isn’t radioactive/uranian/nuclear’ appeared here? presumably a ping list somewhere to work this thread screaming that over and over.

the fact DU was ever deployed at all is a war crime imo. if it were anyone but the west using this type munition, it would have already been proscribed as a radiological.


57 posted on 03/21/2023 9:39:52 PM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: JadeEmperor
There is no “nuclear component” in the DU munitions. Putin is retarded."

YOU're retarded. Birth defects and weird cancers all over the place in the Balkans from that ****. Putin is telling the wankers and fops that they won't get away with doing that in the Slavic world.

58 posted on 03/22/2023 6:14:06 AM PDT by ganeemead (Ukraine/Zelensky: Adding an element of chutzpah to ordinary Nazism...)
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To: ganeemead

>> Putin is telling the wankers and fops that they won’t get away with doing that in the Slavic world.

What Slavic world? Slavic Poland, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic are eagerly helping Ukraine fight the Russian orcs.

Not one of these Slavic countries wants under the filthy Russian boot again. Not one!


59 posted on 03/22/2023 9:50:55 AM PDT by JadeEmperor
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To: JadeEmperor

Why does a Pole shoot a German, before he shoots a Russian?

Business before Pleasure.


60 posted on 03/22/2023 9:51:41 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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