The United States and Ukraine have been intentionally hiding information in international reports about their cooperation in the sphere of a biological research, Chief of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov said on Thursday.
Kirillov reiterated that in line with the UN Biological Weapons Convention (UNODA) all participating member states must submit information with the United Nations about employed facilities and implied activities in this sphere.
"We are speaking here about the measures of trust that are inked with the aim of controlling the Convention’s implementation," he said.
"Beginning in 2016, when our previously-mentioned projects entered their stage of implementation, the United States and Ukraine were intentionally hushing them up in international reports, despite their obvious military-biological orientation."
"Such concealment is another reason to think about Pentagon’s original aims regarding the territory of Ukraine," Kirillov added.
The military official also recalled "historic facts, when such US irresponsible behavior beyond its national jurisdiction only led to formal excuses on behalf of the US Administration."
"Back in October 2010, then-US President Barack Obama officially acknowledged the fact of subjecting citizens of Guatemala to illegal testing and they were intentionally infected with syphilis and gonorrhea agents, and it was done with an approval from the White House," Kirillov said.
Last week, Kirillov announced that a network of over 30 biological labs was uncovered in Ukraine and they had been allegedly operated under control of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) of the US Department of Defense. Washington remains that all statements about the operation of US-run bio-laboratories in Ukraine are propaganda and disinformation.
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The Pentagon has invested $1.6 million to study ways to transmit diseases from bats to humans in Ukraine and Georgia, Chief of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops Igor Kirillov said on Thursday.
ReplyDeleteAccording to him, the research documents showed that "the work was being done on the basis of a lab in Kharkov jointly with the notorious Lugar Center in Tbilisi. "The Pentagon spent $1.6 million for its implementation in Ukraine and in Georgia, the bulk of which was received by Ukraine as the main contractor," Kirillov said.
"The documents received by the Russian Defense Ministry indicate that the research in this area is systematic, having been carried out since 2009 at the earliest, under the direct supervision of US specialists as part of its P-382, P-444 and P-568 projects," he went on to say.
According to Kirillov, the head of the office of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency within the Department of Defense at the US Embassy in Kiev, Joanna Wintrol, was among the curators of this activity. During the implementation of this project, six families of viruses (including coronaviruses) and three types of pathogenic bacteria (causing the plague, brucellosis and leptospirosis) were isolated, he said.