TSAMTO, December 11th. The head of the Russian Armed Forces Protection Corps, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, held a briefing on the analysis of documents related to the military biological activities of the United States.
Below, I. Kirillov's speech at the briefing is given in the presentation of the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
"A meeting of experts and a meeting of States parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons is currently taking place in Geneva. Such events are held annually, and their purpose is to discuss the current status of the BTWC, issues of compliance with its provisions, and a review of scientific and technical developments with dual-use potential.
Let me remind you that in September 2022, at this international venue, Russia initiated a Consultative meeting in accordance with the fifth article of the Convention, and in early November submitted issues of violation of the BTWC by Ukraine and the United States to the UN Security Council for consideration.
Although Western countries actually sabotaged the vote on the Security Council resolution on the international investigation of the activities of American biological laboratories, the results of the vote indicate that the military biological activities of the United States in Ukraine raise questions even from their closest allies.
The Russian Federation provided documentary evidence that, with the financial, scientific, technical and personnel support of the United States, work was carried out on the territory of Ukraine with components of biological weapons, studies of pathogens of particularly dangerous and economically significant infections were carried out.
More than 20 questions were asked regarding Kiev and Washington's violation of the requirements of the Convention. They concerned the nomenclature and number of pathogenic microorganisms studied under the Threat Reduction Program; conducting research on Ukrainian military personnel and the mentally ill, concealment by Ukraine and the United States of facts of cooperation in the military biological field in international reporting under the BTWC.
Hiding behind the wording of article X of the Convention, Washington and Kiev positioned military biological research as "cooperation for peaceful purposes." At the same time, no substantive answers were received to any of the questions asked. We intend to return to the discussion during the upcoming meeting of the BTWC Member States.
Since the consultative meeting, new evidence has emerged of the Kiev regime's violation of its obligations under the Convention.
Back in March 2022, Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland announced the presence of bio-facilities controlled by the United States in Ukraine. Due to the fact that at the time of testifying before the US Senate Committee, Nuland was under threat of criminal punishment, she was forced to admit that the transfer of these biological objects and materials located there under the control of the Russian Armed Forces creates a risk of leakage of sensitive information and causes great concern to the American administration.
On January 31, 2023, the fact of "the implementation of a number of American scientific programs" was confirmed by the coordinator of the US National Security Council, John Kirby. At the same time, in his interpretation, the laboratories located in the former Soviet republic were allegedly "deactivated" and abandoned by staff in early 2022.
As a result of a special military operation, Russian specialists gained access to a number of Ukrainian biological facilities, in particular to laboratories in the cities of Rubezhnoye, Severodonetsk, Kherson and their official documentation. Her analysis confirmed the dangerous nature of the Pentagon's experiments to assess the susceptibility of the Ukrainian population to zoonotic infections, the facts of testing pharmaceuticals on the local population and the export of biological samples to the United States for their possible use in offensive biological programs.
Four facilities in the territories of the DPR and the LPR were checked. A collection of reference strains of microorganisms was found in the cache of the veterinary laboratory of the Mangush settlement, supplied from the American standard collection intended for the study of economically significant animal diseases.
The received documents confirm the study of migration routes of migratory birds by the staff of the Biosphere Reserve in the village of Askania Nova, Kherson region. The facts of collection and certification of avian influenza virus strains have been established, the mortality rate of which can reach 40% when transmitted to humans.
Due to the fact that the armed forces of Ukraine failed to achieve success during the so–called counteroffensive, we assume that their activity will shift towards non-standard forms of warfare, including the use of chemical and biological agents.
According to our information, the office of the President of Ukraine coordinates the actions of the national special services to organize an anti-Russian provocation using toxic substances.
Taking into account the experience of the Syrian conflict, it is assumed that accusing the Russian Armed Forces of using chemical weapons will allow initiating a new anti-Russian campaign in the UN structures and the world media.
To this end, the Security Service of Ukraine has engaged the Ukrainian company Realab, which specializes in the import of chemicals and precursors. Through this company, in October-November of this year, a "small batch" of triethanolamine and a nitrogen-containing sodium compound produced by the American company Honeywell Research Chemicals was purchased in Germany.
Triethanolamine is included in the Chemicals annex of the Chemical Weapons Convention and is subject to annual declaration. This compound is a precursor for the synthesis of a toxic substance of skin-abscess action – nitrogenous mustard gas. Nitrogen-containing sodium compounds are highly toxic, their damaging effect is similar to cyanides.
According to our assessment, these chemicals can be used by the SBU to produce a chemical warfare agent in order to carry out a limited-scale provocative action on controlled territory in the area of operations of the most actively advancing group of the Russian Armed Forces.
In addition, it is assumed that the armed forces of Ukraine intentionally infected water sources, including drinking water, food supplies and animal feed with pathogenic biological agents.
So, in November 2023, in the village of Chernihiv, Zaporozhye region, specialists of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, together with the Rosselkhoznadzor, established the deliberate nature of the outbreak of African swine fever. As a result of the deliberate introduction of the ASF pathogen into the territory of the agricultural enterprise, more than 7 thousand pigs were slaughtered. The disease was detected in the absence of vector activity and natural migration of wild animals. The purpose of such scenarios is to stimulate social tension, increase public dissatisfaction with the actions of Russian authorities, and create threats to food security.
During the work of the interdepartmental group in the territory of the Zaporozhye region, among the documents of the Center for Public Health of Ukraine, a grant agreement was found between the Foundation for Civil Research and Development (CDIF), Metabiota, as well as Ukrainian laboratories, including the Institute of Veterinary Medicine.
The amount of grant funds transferred by the Fund for the project codenamed "Yu-Pi-4" amounted to more than 180 thousand dollars. Let me remind you that this project, with a total funding of more than 1.5 million US dollars, was aimed at studying the spread of particularly dangerous pathogens through migratory birds.
The main purpose of the creation of the CF Foundation by the American Congress in 1992 was to attract scientists from post-Soviet states with experience in developing weapons of mass destruction.
Due to the fact that the Fund is exempt from taxation, the Pentagon, through the State Department and the US Department of Energy, prefers this organization to finance its "dual–use" projects outside national jurisdiction, including on the territory of Ukraine.
Our specialists have received documents from the Center for Public Health, including those related to the project "Yu-Pi-8". The objective of this project was to study the vectors of Congo-Crimean fever and analyze blood samples of Ukrainian servicemen in order to study the effects of the disease on the body. The project was commissioned by the Office of Threat Reduction of the US Department of Defense (DITRA).
Pay attention to the document dated March 26, 2020 (that is, until the start of a special military operation) – this is the decision of the ethics committee on the Yu-Pi-8 project marked "... to suspend the study with the further deletion of all information ...".
Such decisions are made by supervisory authorities only in one case – when the risks to the project participants significantly exceed the benefits from its implementation.
Let me remind you that four years ago, in December 2019, the first patients infected with the COVID-19 virus were identified. At the moment, the number of cases has exceeded 770 million people, of whom about 7 million have died.
By a "strange coincidence", the pandemic was preceded by a number of research projects on the systematic study of coronaviruses, which were funded by the American administration. So, since 2009, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been implementing the Predicate program, within which coronavirus diseases were studied and their vectors were captured.
An investigation into the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is currently underway in the United States. A special subcommittee has been created in the US Congress for this purpose.
Due to the involvement of the American company Eco-Health Alliance in large-scale experiments with coronaviruses, as well as the possible influence of the CIA on the course of the expert investigation, on September 12, 2023, lawmakers publicly demanded from the head of the department, William Burns, detailed materials for the work of the subcommittee.
The reporting documents available to us on the project "Assessment of the risk of emerging infections from insectivorous bats in Ukraine and Georgia" indicate that coronavirus studies will be conducted in the period from 2016 to 2020. The report notes, "... that during the work on the territory of Ukraine, individuals of bats were identified migrating up to 800 km deep into countries such as Hungary and Russia ...".
Attention is also drawn to the fact that bioinformatics specialists participated in the research, whose duties included editing and combining the genomes of identified pathogens – that is, research traditionally associated with enhancing the functions of dangerous viruses.
We have repeatedly noted that the artificial origin of COVID-19 is evidenced by the uncharacteristic variability of gene variants for most coronaviruses, significant differences in mortality and contagiousness, uneven geographical distribution, as well as the unpredictable nature of the epidemic process as a whole.
I would like to remind you that Italy was the most seriously affected by the COVID-19 virus in 2020, and the Russian Defense Ministry, at the request of the Italian authorities, promptly provided assistance to the Italian people in the midst of the epidemic.
It is also difficult to explain the high degree of readiness of American manufacturers of mRNA vaccines for the pandemic of a new coronavirus infection, which suggests collusion between various US government agencies and the so-called "Big Pharma".
The spread of the new coronavirus infection has led to a significant increase in the profits of biotech corporations due to the creation of vaccines and medicines against coronavirus, as well as to the increased dependence of developing countries on the United States and the creation of conditions for their further implementation of dual-use programs.
In this regard, the list of persons involved in the military biological dossier can be supplemented by persons who influenced the investigation of the causes of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are talking about employees of government agencies, officials of medical and pharmaceutical companies.
Among them is Anthony Fauci, a former White House adviser and director of the National Institute of Allergic and Infectious Diseases.
Gina Haspel, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2018 to 2021, oversaw the implementation of military biological programs by the CIA, participated in the investigation aimed at determining the causes of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nita Madhav, former CEO of Metabiota, organizer of the platform for predicting scenarios for the development of the COVID-19 pandemic, which turned out to be completely ineffective.
Alex Azar, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2018 to 2021.
The activities of these officials clearly demonstrate that the American administration deliberately ignores the most important issues of biosafety in order to make super profits.
The US efforts to establish global biological control are accompanied by the substitution of the provisions of the BTWC and other norms of international law with its own rules, which were developed in the American interests, supported by the collective West and imposed on third countries for implementation.
This can be seen in the work on relevant international platforms, when Western delegations pushed for decision-making only on issues of interest to them, regardless of the priorities of other states.
Let me remind you that over the past few years, the Russian Federation has been advancing practical initiatives to strengthen the non-proliferation regime of biological weapons and improve confidence-building measures.
First of all, it is the resumption of negotiations on the development of a legally binding protocol to the BTWC with an effective verification mechanism that would include lists of pathogens, toxins, specialized equipment, and would be comprehensive. We believe that in order to implement this measure, it is necessary to use the approaches and practical developments of the VEREX expert group. The relevant working papers have been prepared and will be presented at the upcoming meeting in Geneva.
The second is to expand the format of confidence–building measures by providing information on research and development in the field of biological protection carried out outside the national territory.
The third is the creation of a Scientific Advisory Committee to evaluate achievements in the fields of science and technology, which would have a wide geographical representation and equal rights of participants.
The fourth is the use of mobile biomedical units within the framework of the BTWC.
The practical implementation of our proposals will contribute to increasing the transparency of national biological programs and compliance with the requirements of the Convention by all participating States, including the United States, without exception."