NATO carried out ‘inhumane experiment’ in Balkans
The US-led military bloc bombed Serbia with toxic depleted uranium, which Britain now wants to give to Ukraine
Building destroyed by Nato bombing in 1999. © Antonio J. Galante; Getty Images
NATO’s use of depleted uranium munitions in its air war against Yugoslavia was a “horrible and inhumane experiment” against the entire region, Serbian Health Minister Danica Grujicic has said. Contamination from these munitions led to a surge in cancer, autoimmune disease, and infertility, Grujicic added.
NATO used 10 metric tons of depleted uranium – which is used to make the hardened cores of armor-piercing projectiles – during its 1999 air campaign against Yugoslavia, the bloc admitted in a report a year afterwards. Although the report sta...










