Russian Ministry of Defense, son He suggested a link between the Pentagon’s activities and several suspected cases of outbreaks of infectious diseases on the territory of Russia and Ukraine over the years.
The commander of the radiological, chemical and biological defense forces of the Russian army, Igor Kirillov, said today at a briefing at the headquarters of the Ministry of Defense on Thursday, that Russia continues to study data from employees of Ukrainian laboratories. The work of the United States and its NATO allies to develop military biological programs on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Noting that the meeting was about official documents signed by the authorities and affixed with official seals, he said, “We think that work is being carried out on the production of biological weapons components on the territory of Ukraine.”
The ministry has released a package of leaked documents confirming that the Pentagon has provided $32 million to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense laboratories in Kyiv, Odessa, Lviv and Kharkov.
According to published documents, the Pentagon has selected these laboratories to develop several projects, including the UP8 project to study viral hemorrhagic fevers, leptospirosis, and hantaviruses.
Noting that there are natural hotspots for the spread of these viruses on the territory of Russia and Ukraine, the ministry explained that this means “the possibility of using it under the cover of natural spread.”
The ministry also referred to another project, P-781, which deals with investigating the possibility of transmission of viruses from bats to humans, stating that the work on this project is carried out at a laboratory in Kharkov, Ukraine, at the “R. Lugar Public Health Research Center in Tbilisi, Georgia” Pentagon. connected to.
According to the ministry’s data, the Pentagon spent $1.6 billion on this project, which has been launched since at least 2009 in Ukraine and Georgia, where Ukraine has taken a larger part.
The ministry noted that these efforts resulted in the establishment of six viral families (including coronaviruses) and three microbes that cause plague, brucellosis and leptospirosis, noting that they are characterized by increased ability to withstand treatment and a rapid spread.
The ministry also released documents confirming that 5 thousand samples from Ukrainian citizens were delivered to the “R. Lugar Center” in Tbilisi and 773 other samples were delivered to other countries, including Georgia, Germany and the UK, of samples taken in Ukraine. to a lab in England
In this regard, the ministry son Drawing attention to the many cases that damaged the economy due to the outbreak of infectious diseases in Russia in the last decade, son He noted that the losses caused by the spread of the highly contagious bird flu in 2021 exceeded $ 1.7 billion. In addition to the elimination of six million chickens, the loss of the agricultural sector in European countries as a result of this infection is about two billion dollars.
The ministry has confirmed in its documents that the Veterinary Institute in Kharkov is working on a project related to avian flu, including an assessment of the conditions in which the infection epidemic spiraled out of control and the risks arising.
The ministry called for an independent international investigation to shed light on this project.
The Ministry noted that it received data on the destruction of biological materials and documents in Ukrainian laboratories, including a laboratory in Kherson, where documents were destroyed in an emergency.
The ministry said that the reason for this urgency is to try to hide data on the thrush epidemic that emerged in this city in 2018, noting that four cases of infection were detected here in February, although it is unusual for the disease transmitted by mosquitoes.
The ministry also noted that during the briefing, more than 70 deaths as a result of infection in the town of Pesky were monitored in the republics of Donetsk and Lugansk in 2018. son referred to a sharp increase in the frequency of epidemics of highly contagious tuberculosis. Its suburbs in the Donetsk Republic.
“This could indicate that the outbreak was a deliberate act or that the pathogen accidentally leaked from a biological laboratory on Ukrainian soil,” he added.
Source: RT
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