The Russian military has the sick are 
2727 Italian soldiers suffering from cancer at 31 December 2009. And 'the data provided by the Minister of Defense Ignazio La Russa
reply to a parliamentary question tabled by Teresa Bellanova the PD, January 13, 2010.
This is the highest number carried out in recent years, and we must also consider that data are incomplete, as noted by the same minister. "The differences between the data supplied by the defense - in fact, La Russa answered - and those from sources outside the administration may well explain the latency in the development of cancer are usually the order of years, some staff covered by the census, being in military service, was placed on leave at the end of the period, with the result che l'eventuale patologia insorta adistanza di tempo è stata gestita nell'ambito della sanità civile e nessuna notizia, quindi, è pervenuta nei canali informativi della sanità militare".
“Nello specifico – afferma La Russa - al 31 dicembre 2009, risultano 594 casi di malattie neoplastiche tra il personale impiegato in missione nei seguenti teatri: Balcani, Iraq, Libano e Afghanistan e 2133 tra il personale rimasto in patria o impiegato in altri teatri operativi (periodo 1996-2009)”.
Nessun aggiornamento infine sul numero dei morti: il dato è ancora fermo ai 77 casi dichiarati alla precedente commissione di inchiesta sull’uranio impoverito, mentre per le associazioni sono molti more. The Association of Victims of uranium, about a year ago, they counted 216.
13 CASES OF CANCER AMONG THE STAFF OF POLYGONS "About the number of people - is clear from the response of the Russian - who may have contracted" diseases related to depleted uranium on Italian territory, " state, are 13 cases of cancer among staff employed in shooting ranges, four of whom died of the consequences of neoplastic diseases (Please note that this figure could be influenced by the fact that the employees laid off is then lost from the health information flow military). " Always
La Russa answered on 15 February, another question to
presented by Congressman Maurice always the Turkish Democratic Party, said that "as regards the activity of collecting shells - usually carried out at the end of the shooting with weapons and individual department for upgrading of the area that is used - there is no use of gloves or other protective equipment, such practice does not involve exposure to harmful substances for law enforcement personnel. "
On this last point, in the light of developments on the investigation of Quirra, Russia should pursue the matter.
