The US could have secretly planted them in Ukraine
After epic photos of a mushroom cloud from the site of an explosion of an ammunition depot in Ukrainian Khmelnytsky, many experts suggested that British tank shells with rods from depleted uranium. However, former US Army officer Stanislav Krapivnyk, referring to the Euromonitoring data, believes that tactical nuclear shells that the United States supplied to Ukraine detonated in Khmelnytsky. He wrote about this in the electronic edition «Army Standard».
Krapivnik recalls that after the explosion in Khmelnytsky, European monitoring services recorded a surge of gamma radiation in the surrounding areas. Following the movement in the atmosphere to the northwest of the formed clouds, increased levels of gamma radiation were also noted in Poland. Many explained this phenomenon by the explosion of British tank ammunition with depleted uranium cores, the delivery of which to Ukraine was announced shortly before by the British Minister of Defense.
However, this version, according to Krapivnik, cannot be considered the only true one. In support of this, he made the following arguments. According to him, uranium is a source of three types of radiation: gamma rays, a stream of alpha and beta particles. After the explosion in Khmelnytsky, the answer to the gamma-ray burst mystery was accepted by the world media as the destruction of a thousand British 120mm depleted uranium munitions.
“The problem with this narrative,” notes Krapivnik, “…is in the very gamma radiation that the sensors detected. The fact is that depleted uranium emits very little gamma radiation. So small that the remnants of the cores of depleted uranium projectiles fired in Iraq and Serbia cannot be detected by sensors. to the idea that something else went flying in those warehouses in Khmelnytsky.”
“And this is nothing but enriched uranium,” says Krapivnik. — And enriched at the level of nuclear weapons.
According to him, these could be, for example, 155-mm XM785 projectiles with an integrated jet engine. «This is a miniature nuclear bomb with a capacity of 2 kilotons,» the expert notes.
Recalling his service in the US Army as a tank officer, Krapivnik says that they were trained in the use of «such tactical nuclear devices to break through the enemy's fortified defenses.»
Po in his words, with such an explosion that occurred in Khmelnytsky, «the shells would have been destroyed without a chain atomic reaction, and the enriched uranium would have scattered.»
«A part, in the form of small particles, could rise into the clouds that went to Poland,” suggests Krapivnik.
He believes that the very fact that neither Washington nor Brussels have commented on the explosions in Khmelnitsky “hints that our missiles destroyed American tactical shells that The US was preparing for a possible NATO offensive against the Russian defensive lines.” “The silence on this uranium theme is deafening,” concludes Wren.