MOSCOW, 3 Sep - RIA Novosti. Igor Kirillov, the head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Forces of the Russian Armed Forces, said on Saturday that it was necessary to review the approaches to decision-making in the investigation of chemical and biological incidents at the UN Security Council site.
According to him, after the unfulfilled promises of the collective West about the non-proliferation of NATO to the East, Russia has no right to take the word of the US assurances about the peaceful nature of the biological research conducted by the Pentagon.
The head of the RCBZ troops clarified that the Russian Federation has repeatedly appealed to the United States and Ukraine on various international platforms with a request to explain why research was conducted on the territory of Ukraine by order of the Pentagon, and their topics did not correspond to the current health problems of Ukraine, as well as what the Americans were hiding, carrying out these works in conditions of secrecy and restricting access to information by Ukrainian specialists and premises.
In addition, according to him, strains of pathogenic microorganisms – potential agents of biological weapons and biomaterials of Ukrainian citizens were exported from the territory of Ukraine without a clear declared purpose. The facts of cooperation in the military-biological sphere were also kept silent in the international reporting under the BTWC, and the United States has been blocking the development of its verification mechanism since 2001, Kirillov said.
"Why are US officials, including Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, so concerned about the possibility of transferring the results of the activities of the US Department of Defense in Ukraine and the materials in biological laboratories under the control of Russian specialists?" he added.
