* Kremlin claims Ukraine and West could arm Leopard 2 tanks with 'Silver Bullets'
* The uranium-core weapons were used in Iraq but are now largely discontinued
A Kremlin official has warned that Russia will consider the use of any depleted uranium weapons in their new NATO tanks as nuclear 'dirty bombs'.
The West finally agreed to arm Kyiv with dozens of state-of-the art tanks yesterday, modernising the attritional warfare seen on the battlefield in the past 11 months.
Konstantin Gavrilov, head of Russia's delegation on the OSCE forum on security cooperation, claimed that Ukraine could arm their German-supplied Leopard 2 tanks with 'uranium core armour-piercing' shells.
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Update: Russia Warns Ukraine Against Using Depleted Uranium Shells (Sputnik)
WNU Editor: Apparently US officials are not commenting on whether they are shipping weapons/ammo with depleted Uranium shells to Ukraine .... US official declines to say if US will give Kiev depleted uranium ammunition for Bradleys (TASS). But this is nothing new. There have been concerns since last year that NATO is shipping such weapons to Ukraine .... Are France and NATO Shipping Depleted Uranium Weaponry Into Ukraine? (Europe Reloaded).