Russian envoy to the USA, 'the West brings humanity to Armageddon'

(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 23 - "The Western countries led by the United States have decided to bring humanity to the brink of a nuclear Armageddon": the Russian ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said in Washington, according to Tass , responding to statements by senior US officials that depleted uranium munitions are weapons that have been in use for decades and present no high risk.

    "Commenting on this kind of nonsense is really difficult. The US authorities have reached a new low with their irresponsible statements," Antonov said.

"There is a continuous flow of lethal weapons into Ukraine, which are being used to annihilate civilians, residential areas, schools, hospitals, kindergartens," Antonov said, according to an embassy statement reported by Tass.

"It appears that the enlightened West, led by Washington, has irrevocably decided to bring humanity to a dangerous line beyond which nuclear Armageddon looms ever more distinctly."

    British Defense Minister Annabelle Goldie announced on Monday that she would send munitions containing depleted uranium to Ukraine.

    The following day Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia will have to react adequately to the fact that "the West starts using weapons with a nuclear component".

   (HANDLE).