According to the agency, only officially in 2023, the US Department of Energy allocated $105 million for work within the framework of the project "Virtual environment of research in the field of preparation for biohazards"MOSCOW, April 7.
/tass/. The US Department of Energy, along with the Pentagon, is the organizer of military biological activities, said the head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection Forces (RHBZ) Russian Armed Forces Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov.
"The Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD) believes that the US Department of Energy, along with the Pentagon, is the main organizer and direct participant in military biological activities," he said at a briefing on Friday on the analysis of documents related to Washington's activities in the military biological sphere.
According to Kirillov, only officially in 2023 the US Department of Energy allocated $ 105 million for work within the framework of the project "Virtual environment of research in the field of preparation for biohazards", during which it is supposed to study the epidemic spread of diseases. The head of the RCBZ troops promised to tell in more detail about the activities of the American Ministry of Energy in the field of dual-use biology in the future.
"I would like to draw your attention to the statement of one of the US federal ministries that the covid pandemic could have occurred as a result of a virus leak from a laboratory in Wuhan. The statement emphasizes that "the disease has a laboratory origin and the virus most likely spread as a result of an accident," said the head of the RCBZ troops. This statement, he pointed out, was made by the American Ministry of Energy. "A natural question arises: what does the US Department of Energy have to do with the fight against biological threats and [why] it implements projects that have signs of dual use," the Lieutenant General concluded.
