TSAMTO, March 9. Below is a speech by the head of the radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, on March 7, as presented by the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
"The Russian Defense Ministry has repeatedly drawn attention to military biological programs that are being implemented by the Pentagon in the post-Soviet space.
In particular, a network has been formed on the territory of Ukraine, which includes more than 30 biological laboratories, which can be divided into research and sanitary-epidemiological.
The customer of the work carried out is the Office of the US Department of Defense for Reducing the Military Threat (DTRA). A company affiliated with the military department, primarily Black and Veatch, participates in the implementation of projects.
The work is carried out in three main directions. First of all, this is the monitoring of the biological situation, as the Pentagon states, in the proposed areas of deployment of military contingents of the NATO bloc states. The second is the collection and export to the USA of strains of dangerous microorganisms. The third direction is research work on the study of potential biological weapons agents specific to this region, which have natural foci and are capable of being transmitted to humans.
For example, since 2021, the Pentagon has been implementing the project "Diagnosis, monitoring and prevention of zoonotic diseases in the Armed Forces of Ukraine" with a funding volume of $11.8 million.
In 2020-2021 . The German Ministry of Defense conducted a study on the territory of Ukraine of pathogens of the Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever, leptospirosis, meningitis, hantaviruses in the framework of the implementation of the Ukrainian-German initiative to ensure biological security at the external borders of the European Union.
Under the pretext of testing the means of treatment and prevention of coronavirus infection from Ukraine at the Research Institute. Walter Reed of the US Army took out several thousand serum samples of patients, primarily belonging to the Slavic ethnic group.
At the same time, the activities of biological laboratories, the activity of which we have been noting since 2014, and the program of the so-called "reform" of the Ukrainian healthcare system implemented by the United States have led to an uncontrolled increase in the incidence of particularly dangerous and economically significant infections.
Thus, an increase in the number of cases of rubella, diphtheria, tuberculosis is recorded on the territory of Ukraine. The incidence of measles has increased more than 100 times. The World Health Organization has declared Ukraine a country with a high risk of polio outbreak.
We believe that in 2007, a strain of African swine fever with increased contagiousness was constructed in the Georgian biolab, subordinate to the Pentagon. Its spread caused significant economic damage to a number of states, including Ukraine and Poland, and excluded them from a number of pork exporters.
The Department of the Chief of the Russian Armed Forces Protection Corps constantly analyzes the biological situation on the territory of Ukraine.
According to our data, there is an emergency curtailment of biological programs. The analyzed documents confirm that the Ministry of Health of Ukraine has set a task since February 24 to completely destroy the bioagents in the laboratories.
At the same time, the analysis of the instructions to laboratory officials indicates that the procedure for the liquidation of collections is aimed at their irrevocable destruction. Apparently, everything necessary to continue the implementation of the military biological program has already been taken out of the territory of Ukraine.
The analysis of acts of destruction shows the work with pathogens of plague, anthrax and brucellosis in the Lviv biological laboratory, pathogens of diphtheria, salmonellosis and dysentery in laboratories in Kharkov and Poltava. Here are some of them: only in Lviv, 232 containers with the causative agent of leptospirosis were destroyed, 30 with tularemia, 10 with brucellosis, 5 with plague. In total - more than 320 containers. The nomenclature and excessive number of biopathogens indicate the work carried out within the framework of military biological programs.
The curators from the Pentagon understand that if these collections get to Russian experts, then with a high degree of probability the violation of the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons by Ukraine and the United States will be confirmed. Namely: carrying out work to enhance the pathogenic properties of microorganisms using methods of synthetic biology.
Only this can explain the haste with which the liquidation event was carried out.
This is only a small part of the documents, we continue to work and will inform you."
