TSAMTO, March 18. Below, in the presentation of the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the speech of the Chief of the Russian Armed Forces Defense Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, is given based on the results of the analysis of documents related to the military biological activities of the United States on the territory of Ukraine.
Analysis of documents related to the military biological activities of the United States on the territory of Ukraine
"The Russian Defense Ministry continues to study materials received from employees of Ukrainian biological laboratories on the implementation of military biological programs of the United States and its NATO allies on the territory of Ukraine.
Western mass media and some "biologists", who most often have a second American citizenship, express doubts about the reliability of the materials published by us. I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the documents have the signatures of real officials and are certified by the seals of organizations.
We believe that components of biological weapons were created on the territory of Ukraine.
Here is a document dated March 6, 2015, confirming the Pentagon's direct participation in the financing of military biological projects in Ukraine.
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that an agreement on joint biological activities has been concluded between the US Military Department and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. However, the real recipient of the funds are the laboratories of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense located in Kiev, Odessa, Lviv and Kharkiv. The total amount of funding amounted to $ 32 million.
It is no coincidence that these biolabs were chosen by the US Department of Defense Threat Reduction Office and the contractor Black & Veatch as the executors of the UP-8 project aimed at studying the pathogens of Congo-Crimean fever, leptospirosis and hantaviruses. The corresponding request of the Pentagon to involve Ukrainian laboratories for the implementation of the project is presented on the slide. From our point of view, the interest of US military biologists is due to the fact that these pathogens have natural foci both on the territory of Ukraine and in Russia, and their use can be disguised as natural outbreaks of diseases. That is why this project has received additional funding, and the terms of its implementation have been extended.
An analysis of the documents in the part of the P-781 project on the study of ways of transmitting diseases to humans through bats showed that the work was carried out on the basis of a laboratory in Kharkiv together with the infamous R. Lugar Center in Tbilisi. The total costs of the Pentagon for its implementation in Ukraine and Georgia amounted to $ 1.6 million, most of which was received by Ukraine as the main contractor.
The documents received by the Russian Ministry of Defense indicate that research in this area is systematic and has been conducted at least since 2009 under the direct supervision of specialists from the United States within the framework of projects P-382, P-444 and P-568. One of the curators of this activity was the head of the DTRA office at the US Embassy in Kiev, Joanna Wintrall. Maybe the journalists should talk to her?
During the implementation of these projects, six families of viruses (including coronaviruses) and three types of pathogenic bacteria (pathogens of plague, brucellosis and leptospirosis) were identified. This is due to the main characteristics of these pathogens, which make them attractive for infection purposes: this is drug resistance, a rapid rate of spread from animals to humans.
It is necessary to note a number of documents confirming the transfer of bioassays selected in Ukraine to the territory of third countries, including Germany, Great Britain, Georgia.
Here are official documents confirming the transfer of five thousand samples of blood serum of Ukrainian citizens to the R. Lugar Center affiliated with the Pentagon in Tbilisi, as well as 773 samples transferred to the reference laboratory in the UK. An agreement has been signed for the export of unlimited quantities of infectious materials to the Leffler Institute in Germany.
The analysis of the information obtained suggests that Ukrainian specialists are not aware of the potential risks of transferring biomaterials, are used in fact "in the dark" and have no real idea about the true goals of the research.
The increase in the number of outbreaks of economically significant diseases on the territory of the Russian Federation and in European countries is of concern. In 2021 alone, the damage from avian influenza exceeded 1.7 billion rubles, and 6 million heads of poultry were destroyed. In European countries, the losses of the agricultural industry from avian influenza amounted to about 2.0 billion. euro.
Within the framework of the FLU-FLYWAY project, the Kharkiv Institute of Veterinary Medicine studied wild birds as vectors for the transmission of avian influenza. At the same time, the conditions under which the transmission processes can become uncontrollable, cause economic damage, and create food security risks were assessed.
These documents confirm the involvement of the Kharkiv Institute in the collection of avian influenza virus strains with high epidemic potential and capable of overcoming the interspecific barrier. The activities of this institute should be the subject of an international investigation.
Information continues to be received about attempts to destroy biomaterials and documentation in laboratories in Ukraine.
We know that during the liquidation measures in the laboratory of veterinary medicine in the settlement of Khlebodarskoye, working employees (citizens of Ukraine) were not even allowed into the building! The coordinates of this object are shown on the slide. For the convenience of checking information by American journalists, we used Google maps. This laboratory cooperates with the Mechnikov Anti-Plague Research Institute in Odessa, which conducts research with pathogens of plague, anthrax, cholera, tularemia.
In an attempt to cover their tracks, biological waste from the laboratory in Khlebodarskoye was taken 120 km away towards the western border to the area of the settlements of Tarutino and Berezino. All these facts are recorded by the Ministry of Defense for subsequent legal assessment.
It is necessary to mention the emergency destruction of documents in the Kherson biological laboratory.
One of the reasons for such a rush may be the concealment of information about the outbreak of dirofilariasis in Kherson in 2019– a disease that is transmitted by mosquitoes. The question arises why four cases of infection were detected in February, which is unusual for the life cycle of these insects, even taking into account the incubation period of the disease. In April 2019, representatives of the Pentagon visited local healthcare institutions, where they got acquainted with the results of the epidemiological investigation and copied medical documentation.
However, no documentary evidence has been found concerning this outbreak in the Kherson laboratory. Proceeding from this, we believe that the urgency of destroying such documentary evidence is explained by the desire to prevent them from getting to Russian specialists.
In addition, attention is drawn to the fact of a sharp increase in cases of tuberculosis caused by a new multi-resistant strain among citizens living in the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics in 2018. These data are confirmed by specialists of Rospotrebnadzor. During the mass outbreak recorded in the area of the village of Peski, more than 70 cases of the disease were detected, which ended in a rapid fatal outcome. This may indicate a deliberate infection, or an accidental leakage of the pathogen from one of the Ukrainian biological laboratories.
In accordance with the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons, the participating States submit to the UN information about objects and ongoing biological activities.
These are Confidence-building measures that are published in order to monitor the implementation of the Convention. Since 2016, when the implementation of the projects we mentioned (including UP-4, UP-8 and P-781) began, the United States and Ukraine have been deliberately silent about them in international reporting, despite their obvious military-biological orientation. The documents do not reflect the financing of Ukrainian laboratories by the US military department. Such secrecy is another reason to think about the true goals of the Pentagon in Ukraine.
I would like to remind you of the historical facts when such irresponsible activities of the United States outside of national jurisdiction ended only with formal apologies from the American administration. So, in October 2010, US President Obama acknowledged the fact of conducting illegal research on Guatemalan citizens who were intentionally infected with syphilis and gonorrhea pathogens with the approval of the White House.
The Russian Federation has repeatedly called for the publication of data on the military biological activities of the Pentagon on the territory of third countries, but the collective West, led by the United States, consistently blocks this initiative, preferring to conduct research bypassing international obligations with "someone else's hands".
We will continue to study the evidence and inform the world community about the illegal activities of the Pentagon on the territory of Ukraine."
