The representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Zakharova, described the Ukrainians as consumables for NATO.

MOSCOW, March 23 – RIA Novosti. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Ukrainians are consumables for NATO.

“The alliance has actually become an accomplice in horrific crimes. For NATO, as we all see, Ukrainians are just expendable materials. No one cares about their fate, neither in European capitals nor overseas,” Zakharova told a briefing.

According to him, “it – it, destroy – destroy, now they began to poison.” “I’m talking about the attitude of the West towards the citizens of Ukraine. Recent reports that Britain is ready to supply depleted uranium munitions to the Kiev regime have become the height of cynicism,” he explained.

Earlier, British Deputy Defense Secretary Annabelle Goldie had said in response to a request from the British Parliament that the country would hand over depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine.

Speaking about this initiative, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia would have to react if the collective West started using weapons with nuclear components, and that the West “decided to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian, not in word but in deed.” ” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that if this happens, it will be a bad ending for London. The official representative of the Ministry, Maria Zakharova, described the use of depleted uranium shells as a manifestation of genocide against the people, in which such weapons were used.

Natural uranium consists mainly of the isotopes of uranium-238 (about 99.3%) and uranium-235 (about 0.7%). Depleted uranium is the uranium that remains after uranium-235 has been separated from it as a result of enrichment. However, 0.2-0.3% uranium-235 remains in depleted uranium. The density of uranium is close to that of tungsten. This reduces aerodynamic drag while making smaller bullets equal in mass to most other metal bullets. Depleted uranium is used in the cores of sub-caliber armor-piercing projectiles, which have high kinetic energy. Because uranium is pyrophoric (its small particles spontaneously ignite in air), bullets made with it have a significantly greater armor damaging effect than bullets with a tungsten core.

The radioactivity of depleted uranium is less than that of natural uranium ore. However, like other heavy metals, uranium is toxic. According to some experts, genetic damage that causes cancer may be related to the mechanism of mutually increasing the chemical toxicity of uranium particles entering the body, and although relatively weak, but still depleted uranium radioactivity.