US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland confirmed that there are biological research facilities in Ukraine, and the US is working to prevent them from falling under the control of the forces. She made such a statement, answering the question whether there are chemical weapons in Ukraine, speaking at a hearing in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate of the US Congress. Writes about it TASS.
There are biological research facilities in Ukraine, in fact, we are now quite concerned that the Russian military may be trying to take control of them. So we’re working with the Ukrainians to ensure that they can prevent any of these research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces if they get close.
According to the official, if any incident involving biological or chemical weapons occurs in Ukraine, the responsibility for this will be borne by the Russian side.
Information of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
On March 6, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, announced that during the course of a special military operation in Ukraine, facts of an emergency cleansing by Kiev of traces of a military biological program were uncovered. According to the Defense Department, the US Department of Defense was involved in financing this program.
In the course of a special military operation, the facts of an emergency cleansing by the Kiev regime of traces of a military biological program being implemented in Ukraine, funded by the US Department of Defense, were revealed
On the same day, an instruction of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine on the destruction of pathogens and acts of destruction in the Poltava and Kharkiv biological laboratories were published. The list included plague, anthrax, tularemia, cholera and other deadly diseases.
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In total, according to Igor Kirillov, head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Ministry of Defense, there were 30 laboratories in the country fulfilling orders from the US Department of Defense. In particular, biolaboratories in Lvov were developing plague and anthrax pathogens, in Kharkov and Poltava they worked with diphtheria, dysentery and salmonellosis pathogens.
According to the Ministry of Defense, more than 320 containers were destroyed in Lviv alone, in which pathogens of leptospirosis, tularemia, brucellosis and plague were found.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the activities of these biological laboratories and healthcare reforms have led to an uncontrollable increase in especially dangerous infectious diseases. There is an increased number of cases of rubella, diphtheria, tuberculosis, measles. In addition, the World Health Organization has declared Ukraine a country at high risk of a polio outbreak.
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Russia’s reaction
In early March, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the United States was concerned about the fate of military laboratories built by the Pentagon in Kyiv and Odessa and was afraid of losing control over them.
I think that I will not reveal secrets, but we have evidence that the Pentagon is very much concerned about the fate of chemical and biological facilities in Ukraine. Because the Pentagon in Ukraine actively built two biological military laboratories and there, in Kyiv and Odessa, was engaged in the development of pathogens. Now they’re worried they’ll lose control of these labs.
The Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) reported that the head of the department, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed to check the facts of the creation of biological weapons on the territory of Ukraine and demanded that the investigators make a decision to initiate a criminal case and identify all those involved in the crime.
World reaction
In turn, the Chinese authorities called on the United States to disclose data on military biological laboratories located in Ukraine. According to Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, 26 American laboratories operated in Ukraine.
The United States, as the party that has the most information about laboratories, should disclose relevant data as soon as possible, including about the viruses that were there and the nature of the research on them.
Lijian also suggested that the US military biological programs in Ukraine are just the “tip of the iceberg.” He explained that the US authorities are monitoring 336 laboratories in 30 countries around the world, and they do this “under the pretext of cooperation to reduce biological risks in the field of security and protect global health.”
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The main contender for the nomination to the Michigan House of Representatives from Kent County, Republican Robert Regan, said that Ukraine should not be considered completely innocent, and that there are several examples of corruption in the Kyiv authorities, in particular, episodes with the use of biological weapons.
Ukraine has some history of corruption – money laundering, smuggling, biological weapons, drugs (…) I want to know what’s really going on. That’s why I’m in no hurry to say: “We must immediately condemn Putin”
The politician noted that he was not ready to condemn Russia for the special operation in Ukraine. He also said he understands why Russian President Vladimir Putin made this decision.
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