2023-04-06
President Putin has made no secret of his opposition to the use of DU munitions in the challenger tanks that "our" government has promised to the Ukraine - but he would say that wouldn't he?
The surprising bit of news is that DU has been reportedly detected in the UK since February 2022 when the war began.
We know from previous experience that radioactive emissions from the Chernobyl nuclear accident were instrumental in persuading the Soviet Union to confess that it was one of their reactors that failed, but news that DU traces have been detected in the UK already is a surprise - if they can't have time-travelled back from the future, it's reasonable to suppose that one or both of the opposing forces in the Ukraine have been using such ammunition.
Of course supposition is not proof, and there may be some other explanation, but DU is not exactly in widespread use as far as I know.
