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Russian Defense Ministry: The Pentagon is rapidly increasing its military biological presence in Africa

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This happened after Russia managed to stop the implementation of American military biological programs in the liberated territories of Ukraine, said Igor Kirillov, head of the Armed Forces of the Russian Armed Forces

MOSCOW, June 25. /tass/. The Pentagon is forced to transfer unfinished research to other regions, in particular to Africa, after Russia managed to stop the implementation of American military biological programs in the liberated territories of Ukraine. This was announced by the head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov.

"Due to the fact that we managed to stop the implementation of military biological programs in the liberated territories of Ukraine, the Pentagon is forced to transfer research unfinished within the framework of Ukrainian projects to other regions. Africa is currently in the zone of increased interest," he said.

He recalled that the US government's customers for research in Africa - in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Uganda and South Africa - are the US Department of Defense's Military Threat Reduction Agency (DITRA) and the State Department. At the same time, Washington uses third-party performers to conceal the goals of the research: contractors and intermediary organizations (more than 20 companies in total), as well as enterprises of the so-called Big Pharma.

Kirillov drew attention to the fact that Metabiota's activities were discontinued in Africa, as its working methods "began to raise too many questions at the level of national governments." So, he noted, in 2014, samples of the Ebola virus were illegally exported by representatives of the company and transferred to the Research Institute of Infectious Diseases of the US Army.

Kirillov added that among the participants in illegal military biological activities are former military personnel from the United States and Great Britain, employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Africa, representatives of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

The buildup of the American military-biological presence in Africa

According to Kirillov, the available documents confirm that the US military-biological presence on the African continent is increasing "rapidly."

"So, in October 2023, employees of the Institute of Infectious Diseases of the US Army conducted a large-scale study of hantaviruses in natural foci in Kenya with sampling from bats. A year earlier, US military biologists studied the effects of antimalarial drugs on the local population," said the head of the RCMP troops.

Kirillov added that in January of this year, American officials from the Pentagon, the State Department and the Ministry of Health held a meeting with the heads of the African Center for Disease Control, at which prospects for the development of the continent's laboratory potential were discussed. In addition, with the financial support of DITRA, the construction of a laboratory and a training center in Ethiopia was started.

Kirillov warned African partners against cooperating with the United States in the military-biological sphere. "As practice shows, such interaction results in the loss of national sovereignty in the field of biosafety and a worsening of the morbidity situation. An example are infections such as yellow fever, monkey pox and Rift Valley fever, an outbreak of which was recorded in Cairo, where the US Navy's military biological laboratory was located," he said, adding that in 2013 alone, 170 thousand people fell ill as a result of an outbreak of yellow fever, 60 thousand of them from fatal outcome. 

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