Several experts yesterday and today presented their analyses in Bonn and Berlin, Germany, commissioned by German Defence Ministry, which proved that German peacekeeping troops deployed in Kosovo had not been exposed to the risk of parts of shells containing depleted uranium used by NATO during the bombing campaign in Yugoslavia.

A member of the Federal Ecology Ministry’s commission for radioactivity alleged, however, that the level of radioactivity of depleted uranium was high, and that soldiers could contract diseases even several years after their engagement in the Balkans, Deutsche Welle reports.

Berlin press, meanwhile, conveyed the information from the German army sources that six soldiers so far had fallen ill and that German Defence Ministry knew very well that radioactivity of depleted uranium was not such a danger in itself as the fact that it highly toxic for the organism.

Source: FreeSerbia