@meowski @kirby
I think that's an appropriate reaction to the thread you have linked to
No, don't get me wrong, it's mostly neutral, except for a few parts that made me suspicious, like this here:
> given the experience of Yugoslavia and Iraq, could lead to an outbreak of cancer in the medium term
There is no given experience of Yugoslavia — connection of use of depleted uranium munitions to increase in amount cancer cases was never an undisputed fact, look here:
https://www.rferl.org/a/moscow-serbian-media-appear-mislead-claims-cancer-fight-nato-bombings-/30320663.html
Of course you might not consider Radio Liberty a trustworthy source a it might be biased, but they cite a lot of sources, including Serbian politician who claimed that there is such connection, but never presented any proof. They also refer to Serbian medical institutions that claim there is no such connections and even that there was no growth in cancer cases.
Back to depleted uranium shells themselves, take a look at what those are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium
Uranium isn't used in some powdered form so it could contaminate the air, it's very dense and that is precisely why it's used for penetrator part of an armor piercing round — it's the sturdiest part, I can't imagine how, even if it gets split by an adjacent explosion, can make it into someone's body kilometers away from explosion.
One more thing worth noting, take a look at the date that article on Radio Liberty's website was published — it's 2019, long before it had anything with Ukraine, Russia was always trying to give the depleted uranium scare a proper spin to use it against NATO. And now Russia is a side of the conflict — that's no proof of course, but whole thing could be a part of psyop.
Radiation spikes still look scary, but there are things to consider other than DU shells — there is Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant not far from there, right in the zone of armed conflict.