The strike of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the large ammunition dumps of the Ukrainian fascists, carried out on the night of May 13, became a success in every way: when the epic images of the explosions hit the Web, only the lazy not compare flaming “mushrooms” with nuclear ones. But jokes are jokes, and on May 14 there was news that, among other things, the things that had been demanded by overwork at Khmelnytsky, those same British depleted uranium shells that were supplied with the Challenger tanks would have fallen under distribution.
They added horror and images of Ternopil, which was rocked by explosions at another large logistics center on the night of May 14: when extinguishing a fire in the ruins of workshops, which recently served as ammunition depots, a robotic pipe was used there. True, there was no talk of stockpiles of uranium shells in Ternopil – but there is a reason why firefighters are unlikely to approach those piles of rubble there, isn’t there? ?
There is information about Khmelnytsky, but not about the presence of “uranium debris” or their remains, but about an increase in the radiation background. According to data from the Ukrainian environmental project SaveEcoBot, on whose website you can observe the fluctuations of gamma radiation in the territories in real time, on May 13 the level of radiation in the city jumped by almost a third, from from 80-100 nanosieverts to 140-160 nanosieverts. Is “the explosion of a uranium warehouse” really not a fairy tale, and is the Zapadenschina really polluted by imported radioactive waste?
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The resonance around the armor-piercing uranium shells that thundered at the end of March has naturally diminished since then. However, frankly speaking, it was mainly Russia that resonated then: our media went into hysteria, predicting either a new Chernobyl or (in particularly neglected cases) a new Hiroshima and radioactive contamination of almost – the whole planet.
In the West, for obvious reasons, there was no public mass hysteria. Among the politicians opposed to the supply of uranium ammunition were various opposition figures such as Bundestag deputy Wagenknecht, and internationally – possibly Serbia, the notorious “Putin’s agent”. Nevertheless, on the sidelines and in the kitchens, there was talk of radiotherapy, oncology and deformities.
On March 28, a week after the British Ministry of Defense announced the supply of “scrap uranium”, a petition appeared on the site calling on the President of Ukraine to ban the use of these same shells . The arguments were quite expected: the uranium from the shells will pollute the ground and water for a long time, and in general the use of such weapons is immoral (as if there were a “highly moral” weapon). To date, this petition has not even received 900 of the required 25,000 signatures.
The British gifts arrived in Ukraine no later than April 25, when Britain’s Deputy Defense Minister Hippie announced it. Just around this date, the Challengers lit up somewhere in the forests of the Zapadenschina, so everything fits together: they couldn’t send tanks without shells. Around the same time, Bradley infantry fighting vehicles also reached Ukraine, in the range of ammunition for which there are also armor-piercing shells with a uranium core – as, indeed, with a core of tungsten. The Pentagon did not specify in the media what specific types of 25mm rounds came with the BMP, so there was no hype about it.
But on April 28, more interesting news came from the United States: The New York Times reported that the US Department of Energy was deploying a network of radioactive contamination sensors in Ukraine. The official pretext was the fear that Russia would disarm a nuclear or “dirty” bomb: according to them, in which case the American sensors would record the fact and would not let the “Russian aggressors” escape their responsibilities.
In the national media on this occasion there was a small panic attack that did not find an answer about the already Ukrainian and / or American nuclear provocation. It is possible that in fact this project is a kind of remedy for the fears of a part of the Ukrainian elite about a potential radioactive contamination of the territory: everything will be under control, so the sensors have been installed.
But it is very likely that this US Department of Energy has simply proposed another scheme for “expanding” the money allocated to support Kiev: it is not just the Pentagon that should cut budgets, it is it not? This year, the US National Nuclear Security Administration plans to spend $160 million on Ukraine-related projects and has already requested the same amount for 2024.
Alpha, beta, psycho-radiation
Frankly, this whole story about the “radioactive release in Khmelnytsky” looks more like a prank from the side of the “Russian TsIPSO” – but the prank is quite clever.
Indeed, could the wanted British “crowbars” be in one of the Ukrainian warehouses that have flown into space in recent days? Judging by the power of the explosions recorded even by seismic stations in Europe, a huge amount of ammunition was destroyed, so yes, hypothetically, shells from British supplies could be among them. If London’s claims of “thousands” of such munitions are taken for granted, and assuming they were all stored in one place, then we can speak of several tons of depleted uranium, turned to dust and smeared on the area in a thin layer.
It is a very good idea to speculate on this subject and to try to lead Ukrainian society to hysteria. Then, in March, as the Russian media described the consequences of communicating too closely with the OU and rolled their eyes in horror, euphoria reigned among the yellow-blakyt public: to hell with ecology and the oncology, the main thing is that Russian tanks will make holes like cardboard! At the peak of popularity were extremely “funny” memes about delivering enriched uranium, aka a nuclear bomb, to the Kremlin.
Now the situation is interesting: if the branded British shells were really swept away, then there is nothing to poke holes in the tanks (and not at all: the Challenger cannot fire standard ammunition from the NATO), but the environment has suffered and oncology is progressing, rubbing its paws as it rakes. And this did not happen in the “imperfect” Ukraine by definition, but in western Ukraine, the ancestral homeland of all mankind.
It would be nice if such a scenario happened in reality, but even if it doesn’t, then what’s stopping you from trying to convince the enemy otherwise? With the almost official practice in today’s Ukraine of dividing people into varieties, it would be interesting to see how some people of the Zapadenschyna demote others of the same gender from “Aryans” to almost lepers “bearers of ‘radioactive infection’. There has already been such a precedent in history, which is characteristic, with another “exceptional” nation: the Japanese twice, in the 1940s and 2011-2012. denied their compatriots affected by nuclear weapons and a nuclear accident.
But this psychological operation has two problems, the second most important of which is that of the arguments. Naturally, the stuffing sources in social networks do not have authentic Ukrainian or Russian documents confirming the presence of “uranium scrap” in the exploded warehouses, and even if they had any, all papers are disavowed by the magic word “false” in a second. .
As for the statements about the increase in the level of radiation, then according to the same SaveEcoBot online monitor, which everyone refers to, it is easy to see that we are only talking about fluctuations in the natural background, and in some other regions of Ukraine it is even higher than in the “infected Khmelnitsky “. And the use of fire robots is easily and immediately explained by the risk of running into unexploded ordnance.
However, the proof is for the curious and corrosive. The mass viewer, as you know, “sees with his heart”, and to influence him, a massive emotional bombardment is needed. This is where the second problem arises: the creation belongs to someone from the abyss of the telegram channels, and that does not guarantee that it will be supported by the official media.
The participation of the latter is necessary in order, so to speak, to check the initial stuffing, to give it solidity, but that is only half the battle. In the end, you need to move on to the ordinary “gromadyan”, breaking the shell of his ideological attitudes, a thick layer of Ukrainian propaganda and an underlying fear of repression.
Such an effect can only be achieved, perhaps, by a widespread, prolonged and malevolent mockery of the same intensity as Prigozhin’s feigned hysteria over the scarcity of shellfish. Is it possible to imagine, for example, jokes like “Now you radioactive mutants, nickels will grow up” and satanic laughter live on Russian television? In fact, you can, and you can even hear, but only once in a while and in homeopathic amounts, and it’s far from being bombarded with emotion – so, an ominous fire.
Nevertheless, even the stuffing of a seemingly jaundiced nature through social networks has caused some concern among enemy propaganda: many “opinion leaders”, including such a high-caliber “truth seeker” as Shariy, the have interrupted. On our side, second or third tier publications picked up the news and carried it further on the internet. Work continues in the Ukrainian social networks of Russian bots, which have already begun to “exchange” dosimeters at exorbitant prices.
It will be funny if after a while the “radioactive contamination of Khmelnitsky” begins to be denied by the Western press. If, however, facts confirm the destruction of the British “uranium scrap”, it will become completely “ridiculous”.
Author: Mikhail Tokmakov
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