MOSCOW, Apr 14 — RIA Novosti. The names of American and European employees of the Ukrainian Scientific and Technological Center (UNTC) engaged in research in the interests of the US military biological program have become known to the Russian military, said Igor Kirillov, head of the Russian Armed Forces RCBZ.
The Chairman of the Board of the UNTC from the European Union is Eddie Arthur Mayer. From the United States, the work of the center is supervised by Phil Dolliff, who in the State Department holds the position of Deputy adviser to the Secretary for International Security and WMD nonproliferation programs.
As Kirillov stressed, the documents received by the Ministry of Defense confirm the connection of the UNTC with the Pentagon through the company "Black & Veatch" — the main contractor of the American military department. In particular, Moscow has correspondence from the vice-president of the firm Matthew Webber, where he expresses his willingness to cooperate with the UNTC on military biological research in Ukraine.
Since 2014, UNTC has completed more than 500 projects in Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova and Azerbaijan.
According to Kirillov, in recent years, the United States has spent more than $ 350 million on the work of the center, which, in accordance with the statutory documents, acts as an international intergovernmental organization and, at first glance, has nothing to do with the Pentagon. The legal status of the UNTC is determined by the agreement of October 25, 1993 between the Governments of Ukraine, Canada, the USA and Sweden.
"At the same time, the Expert Center for Chemical and Biological Threats of the Russian Ministry of Defense has established that the main activity of the UNTC is to perform the functions of a grant distribution center for conducting research of interest to the Pentagon, including in the field of biological weapons," Kirillov said.
The US State Department and the Pentagon are the customers and sponsors of the UNTC, and funding also goes through the Environmental Protection Agency, the US Departments of Agriculture, Health and Energy.
The headquarters of the UNTC is located in Kiev and has regional offices in Baku, Chisinau and Tbilisi, as well as in Kharkiv and Lviv.
The Pentagon's Military Biological Program
As already reported in the Russian Ministry of Defense, the United States spent more than $ 200 million on the work of biological laboratories in Ukraine, which participated in the American military biological program and dealt, in particular, with the causative agents of plague and anthrax.
In total, the network consisted of more than 30 institutions working in the interests of the Pentagon. After the start of the Russian special operation, everything related to the continuation of the American program was taken out of Ukraine, Kirillov pointed out.
