Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrovstated that, according to Russian data, the Americans are very concerned about the situation with their military laboratories in Kyiv and Odessa. “The Pentagon in” Ukraine has actively built two biological military laboratories and has been developing pathogens there. Now they are worried that they will lose control of these laboratories, — said the head of the diplomatic department.
According to experts over the years of independence of Ukraine on its territory a dozen American biolaboratories were opened. Their activities, in particular, are associated with outbreaks of infections in the east of the country, which have not previously occurred there. And the beginning of the special operation of the Russian troops coincided with the expected commissioning of two such laboratories near Odessa and Kyiv. Sergey Lavrov meant them.
On papers — quite peaceful institutions
The presence in Ukraine of American laboratories for experiments with viruses was officially recognized by the US Embassy in April 2020. Then the opposition deputies of the Verkhovna Rada sent a request to Vladimir Zelensky, and this fact was confirmed. True, the Ukrainian Ministry of Health denied everything, but the American embassy itself admitted that “The US Department of Defense, in cooperation with” the Ukrainian government, is working on the peaceful study of dangerous viruses.
It turned out that Ukraine gave the go-ahead to the Americans for the construction of biological laboratories after the “orange” revolution by signing an agreement with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). These laboratories were one of the points of the plan to pump up the country with military infrastructure, although on paper they are quite peaceful research institutions operating exclusively for medical purposes.
To be honest, Ukraine is not unique in this regard. The USA has more than 400 such facilities in different countries, the program involves about 13 thousand scientists working with the most dangerous viruses, while they do not publish any publications in scientific peer-reviewed journals. So, more than ten laboratories (they are called reference) were deployed in Georgia, where, according to the former adviser to Saakashvili, Jeffrey Silverman, they worked, for example, with bubonic plague. In previous years, the presence of American research centers in Armenia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Tajikistan was reported.
The official reason given for the creation of such laboratories outside —— strict biosecurity standards in America itself. In other words, scientific work with the most dangerous pathogens is prohibited there and is strictly controlled. Another thing — developing countries.
“They simply removed these dangerous laboratories from their territory. And now acting like in a grey area, — microbiologist, biological and chemical weapons expert Igor Nikulin explained in interview MK. In these laboratories, military virologists test their latest developments on a specific gene pool: on humans, animals, and plants. And China, by the way, is also surrounded by American biological laboratories.
Why were biomaterials collected in Russia?
Of course, we are more concerned about the laboratories near the borders of Russia. After all, the territory of the same Ukraine adjoins the densely populated regions of our south. And there is reason to believe that some DTRA labs, among other things, developed ethnic biological weapons — bacteria and viruses that selectively affect people of a certain nationality or carriers of a specific genotype. Being infected with such a pathogen, a person may not even guess that he is being deliberately destroyed. At the same time, other ethnic groups will be less sensitive to the pathogen.
The need to create ethnically specific bioagents was expressed, for example, in 1999CIA director George Tennet. And already in the 21st century, in various regions of Russia, cases of collection and export of samples of biomaterials by foreigners were recorded. This was done under a variety of pretexts — for example, to create a family tree, determine hereditary diseases, etc.
Five years ago, the targeted collection of Russian biomaterials by foreign specialists was publicly noticedVladimir Putin. At a Council for the development of civil society and human rights meeting in 2017, he said: “Do you know that biological material is collected all over the country? Moreover, according to & nbsp; different ethnic groups and & nbsp; people living in & nbsp; different geographical points of the Russian Federation. Here is the question: why is this being done?»
It is noteworthy that after the signing of an agreement with DTRA by the Ukrainian authorities, outbreaks of diseases began to occur on the territory of their country, which had not previously been observed there. In 2011, in Kharkiv (one of reference laboratories is located in this city) 12 cadets were hospitalized with diagnosis "swine flu". In 2016, several soldiers died from a severe form of this infection. And three years later, a plague-like disease was detected in Donetsk region. And servicemen suffered again.
…In July 2021, DTRA signed a contract to upgrade two research centers in Ukraine and equip them with equipment. Both laboratories (one in Kyiv, the other — in Odessa) were supposed to start working before the end of February 2022 . But the Russian military operation thwarted these plans. A couple of days later, on February 26, information about biological laboratories in Kyiv and Odessa was removed from the website of the US Embassy in Ukraine. And it's a lot like trying to cover your tracks.