The United Kingdom announced they would send a supply of tanks to Ukraine, as well as uranium shells. Russian President Putin responded in a strongly worded statement. “But I would like to note that if all this happens, Russia will have to act accordingly.”

The UK’s junior Defense Minister Annabel Goldie told Parliament on Tuesday, “Alongside our granting of a squadron of Challenger 2 main battle tanks to Ukraine, we will be providing ammunition including armor-piercing rounds which contain depleted uranium.”

“Such rounds are highly effective in defeating modern tanks and armored vehicles.”

The Kremlin declared that this is equivalent to using a nuclear dirty bomb.

It is an enormous escalation.

In January, Konstantin Gavrilov, head of the Russian delegation in Vienna on arms control, said the Kremlin would consider this ammo “as the use of dirty nuclear bombs against Russia with all the ensuing consequences,” according to the BBC.

As Alex says in the clip below, depleted uranium shells will cause years of damage to the land and tremendous suffering for the people of Eastern Ukraine. Alex believes the UK knows they’re losing and they’re going scorched earth, poisoning the land and the people. That’s Alex’s view; it could also be that Zelensky is considering peace talks. In the end, there is no difference.

The UK is pushing us into World War III.

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a chemical weapons expert and former British Army officer, has a different opinion.

He said Putin’s comments accusing the West of supplying Ukraine with “weapons with a nuclear component” were “absolutely bonkers.” He added that it was “completely wrong.” His opinion is that depleted uranium “cannot be used as a nuclear fuel or turned into a nuclear weapon.” He said Putin is trying “to persuade Xi to give him weapons and to terrify people in the West that he is planning to escalate to nuclear weapons.”

According to CBS News: The United Nations Environment Program has described depleted uranium as a “chemically and radiologically toxic heavy metal.” Depleted uranium munitions were used in conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and Iraq. They were suspected of being a possible cause of “Gulf War syndrome,” a collection of debilitating symptoms suffered by veterans of the 1990-91 war.