Meh, Great Britain has been doing this since at least March... https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/23/what-are-depleted-uranium-munitions-the-uk-is-sending-to-ukraine#:~:text=The%20British%20government%20has%20announced,needed%20to%20create%20nuclear%20weapons.
Added quotes, one of them mentions that.
Thanks for pointing that out!
Ok but the US hasn’t and that’s why it’s news, because they are now lol
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The rounds, which could help destroy Russian tanks, are part of a new military aid package for Ukraine set to be unveiled in the next week.
The munitions can be fired from U.S. Abrams tanks that, according to a person familiar with the matter, are expected be delivered to Ukraine in the coming weeks.
It follows an earlier decision by the Biden administration to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine, despite concerns over the dangers such weapons pose to civilians.
The United States used depleted uranium munitions in massive quantities in the 1990 and 2003 Gulf Wars and the NATO bombing of former Yugoslavia in 1999.
The U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, says that studies in former Yugoslavia, Kuwait, Iraq and Lebanon "indicated that the existence of depleted uranium residues dispersed in the environment does not pose a radiological hazard to the population of the affected regions."
Parts of the country are already strewn with unexploded ordnance from cluster bombs and other munitions and hundreds of thousands of anti-personnel mines.
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