Since May 22, we can see a publication circulating on social networks, shared more than 500 times, claiming that a radioactive cloud from an explosion of depleted uranium munitions in Ukraine would be heading straight for Europe. This cloud would be, still according to this publication, due to a Russian strike which would have hit an ammunition depot in Khmelnitsky in the west of the country. Since then, large amounts of Bismuth 214 would have been detected in Lublin in Poland. Except that for the moment, there is nothing to confirm that this information is true!
But who is behind this publication? Why does what is written there seem unrealistic? With Oh My Fake, we explain all this to you in the video at the very top of the article.
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