Factories of death are covering their tracks

What military laboratories in Ukraine were hiding

Recently, an official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defence made a statement that had the effect of a bombshell. A biological one. Major General Konashenkov told reporters that during the special operation in Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces uncovered the facts of a US-funded military biological programme under implementation. According to Konashenkov, the employees of Ukrainian biological laboratories informed them about the emergency destruction of especially dangerous pathogens, such as plague, anthrax, tularaemia, cholera and other deadly diseases on February 24th.

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This information was supplemented by Igor Kirillov, Chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defence Forces of the Russian Armed Forces. He said that a network of more than 30 biological laboratories was formed in Ukraine, the Defence Threat Reduction Agency within the US Department of Defence being the customer of its operation. After the start of the special operation, all laboratories received a task from the Ministry of Health of Ukraine to completely destroy all biological agents present in these semi-secret institutions.


Traces of what kind of research did Americans in Ukraine hurry to hide?
Right away, China became interested in this question whose government called on the US to immediately disclose information about the military biological laboratories in Ukraine and the viruses worked on there. This was stated at a regular briefing by Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian. He emphasised, 
“US military biological programmes in Ukraine may be just the tip of the iceberg. Under the pretext of co-operation to reduce biological risks in the field of safety and protection of global health, the US controls 336 laboratories in 30 countries.”
 The American party also carried out a lot of military biological research at the Fort Detrick laboratory. What is the true intention of the US? What exactly did it do?
“We call on the US to provide comprehensive information about its military biological programmes both in America and abroad, as well as to accept international verification,” the diplomat concluded.
The US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland reacted to the story of emergency destruction of biological materials quite nervously. She stated that the US is concerned about the possibility of Russia gaining control over the American biological laboratories in Ukraine. However, she did not give a reason for such concern. According to her, these institutions are engaged in biological research only. What she didn’t specify the exact kind of research. However, she summed up, “We are working with Ukrainians on how to prevent these research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces.”
In fact, Nuland admitted the presence of the laboratories and the desire to cover their tracks...

What the laboratory network hides

Companies affiliated with the military department, primarily Black & Veatch, took part in the implementation of dangerous projects. The work was carried out in three main directions. First of all, it was the monitoring of the biological situation, according to the Pentagon, in the expected areas for the deployment of military contingents of the NATO bloc countries. The second direction was the collection and export to the US of strains of dangerous microorganisms. The third direction was research of potential agents of biological weapons specific to the region that have natural foci and are capable of being transmitted to humans.

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For example, in 2020-2021, the German Ministry of Defence conducted a study of the causative agents of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, leptospirosis, meningitis and hantaviruses in Ukraine as part of the Ukrainian-German initiative to ensure biological security at the external borders of the EU. Under the pretext of testing drugs for the treatment and prevention of coronavirus infections, from Ukraine to the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research of the US Army, several thousand serum samples of patients primarily belonging to the Slavic ethnic group were transported.
At the same time, the operation of the biological laboratories that began in 2014 and the programme of the so-called ‘reform’ of the Ukrainian healthcare system implemented by the US led to an uncontrollable increase in the incidence of especially dangerous and economically significant infections. An increase in the number of cases of rubella, diphtheria and tuberculosis in Ukraine has been recorded. The incidence of measles has increased more than 100 times. The World Health Organisation has declared Ukraine a country at high risk of a polio outbreak.
General Kirillov also said that in 2007, a strain of African swine fever with increased contagiousness was created in a Georgian biological laboratory subordinate to the Pentagon. Its spread caused significant economic damage to a number of countries, including Ukraine and Poland, and excluded them from a list of pork exporters. The Directorate of the Chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops of the Russian Armed Forces constantly analyses the biological situation in Ukraine. According to it, now, the biological programmes are being urgently winded down. The documents analysed confirm that the Ministry of Health of Ukraine has set the task to completely destroy all biological agents in the laboratories starting with February 24th.
Meanwhile, an analysis of the instruction to laboratory officials indicates that the procedure for destroying collections is aimed at their irreversible destruction. Apparently, everything necessary to continue the implementation of the military biological programme has already been removed from Ukraine. An analysis of certificates of destruction shows work with the causative agents of plague, anthrax and brucellosis in the Lviv biological laboratory and of diphtheria, salmonellosis and dysentery in the laboratories in Kharkov and Poltava.
Here are some actual figures: only in Lviv, there were destroyed
232 containers with the causative agents of leptospirosis,
30 containers with the causative agents of tularaemia,
10 containers with the causative agents of brucellosis and 5 containers with the causative agents of plague.
In total, more than 320 containers were destroyed.

Background

Belarusian readers are familiar with the history of American biological laboratories in the post-Soviet space from the ‘The Threat of New Pandemics’ in-depth article published by the Belarus Segodnya Publishing House last August. Its authors are reputable statesmen, the then Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Subbotin and Deputy State Secretary of the Security Council Vladimir Archakov. The article focuses on the key aspects of biological research carried out in the laboratories which often has a dual purpose, despite the declared exclusively ‘civil use’.
So, central reference laboratories are open in 12 Ukrainian cities (Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk (2 objects), Lviv (3 objects), Luhansk, Shelkostantsiya village (near Merefa), Vinnitsa, Kyiv, Simferopol, Kherson, Ternopil, Uzhgorod and Kharkiv) under the actual management of the American companies such as Black & Veatch and Metabiota. Along with this, the International HIV/AIDS and TB Institute under the leadership of E. Perlman, American military expert on viruses, operates in Ukraine.

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With the start of the implementation of these projects, outbreaks of measles, hepatitis, tuberculosis, rabies and other infectious diseases among the population of the country have become more frequent. In 2017 alone, tens of thousands of Ukrainians suffered from infections. The massive nature and mortality are explained by the spread rate of viruses with high virulence. As part of the study of the impact of viruses and bacteria on the gene pool of animals and plants in Ukraine, research on the adaptation to local conditions of causative agents of infections atypical for this territory is being carried out.
As a result, at poultry farms and livestock complexes, epidemics of bird flu and African swine fever with economic consequences amounting to tens of millions of US dollars periodically break out.
A year prior to this publication, Ukrainian deputy Renat Kuzmin appeared on television who explicitly warned that the Pentagon had been developing biological weapons in Ukraine for many years. He also said that US native Ulana Suprun, then acting Minister of Health of Ukraine, had been the supervisor of American biological laboratories all that time.
In addition, Kuzmin stressed that there was a high probability that those biological laboratories could become a source of the spread of coronavirus throughout Europe.

By Roman Rud