 Russian security chief radioactive cloud moving toward Europe the destruction of depleted uranium shells in Ukraine has produced a radioactive cloud which has been blown toward Western Europe the secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolay Patrushev has claimed the UK supplied the munitions to Ukraine to be fired from British made challenger tanks the senior official revealed the purported threat during a government meeting in which he accused the US of providing help to other nations that results in harm being done to the recipients they helped Ukraine this way to applied pressure to its satellites to supply depleted uranium munitions their destruction resulted in a radioactive cloud moving towards Western Europe they have detected an increase in radiation in Poland Patrushev stated unconfirmed reports have circulated in Ukraine regarding the target of a Russian strike recently which Moscow said destroyed an ammunition's depot in the city of Kamelnitsky according to the claims the military facility was used to store British provided depleted uranium shells it has been suggested that the material may have been turned into dust by powerful explosions at the depot Russia previously warned that the use of depleted uranium munitions poses a long-term environmental and public health threat based on studies in nations such as Serbia and Iraq where the weapons were previously used London has denied such a risk while it is mildly radioactive depleted uranium is mainly considered a health risk because the material is a toxic heavy metal particles of uranium or uranium oxide produced in an explosion could be inhaled by anyone exposed to them or contaminate the environment