<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The United States providing depleted uranium tank ammunition to Ukraine "is a clear sign of inhumanity", Russia's embassy in Washington said Wednesday.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The ammunition will be among more than $1 billion in military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine announced earlier by the United States.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The 120-millimetre rounds are for M1 Abrams tanks that are expected to be delivered to Ukraine before the end of 2023.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The US decision "is a clear sign of inhumanity", the Russian embassy said on Telegram.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Washington, obsessed with the idea of inflicting a 'strategic defeat' on Russia, is ready to fight not only to the last Ukrainian but to put a cross on the future generations."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Depleted uranium munitions are controversial due to their association with health problems such as cancer and birth defects in areas where they were used in past conflicts, though they have not been definitively proven to have caused such issues.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The US is deliberately transferring weapons with indiscriminate effects," Russia's embassy said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"It is fully aware of the consequences: explosions of such munitions result in the formation of a moving radioactive cloud."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The ammunition is part of $175 million in military equipment for Kyiv that will be drawn from US stocks.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The embassy said that in supplying the rounds, the United States was "deeply indifferent to both the present of Ukraine and the future of the republic and its European neighbors".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The Russian army will continue to methodically grind the weaponry sent" to Ukraine, it added. AFP</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>