【Text/ Dalia Dukina Translation/ Observer Network Fourora】
Newland's confession
Victoria Nuland, the U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs, confirmed that Ukraine has biological research facilities and that the United States is working to prevent it from falling under Russian control. She issued the statement at a hearing before the U.S. Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, responding to questions about whether Ukraine possesses chemical and biological weapons.
"Ukraine has ... [Nuland pause] biological research facilities, in fact we are now very worried that Russian forces may be seeking to control them. Nuland said.
She added: "So, we are working with Ukrainians to study how to prevent any ... [Newland pause] research material fell into the hands of Russian troops as they approached. ”
Fox news video remake, image source: Twitter
Thus, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland confirmed that Ukraine has a "biological research facility" in which the United States participates. In addition, according to her, the United States is trying to hide "research material" from Being Discovered by Russia. The latter indirectly suggests that the United States does not want the world to know what these biological laboratories are doing. So the United States is hiding something.
Allegations by Russia
On March 6, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said Russia had identified Kiev as trying to urgently clean up Ukraine's joint military biological program with the U.S. Department of Defense.
On the same day, the Russian Ministry of Defense provided the media with the original documents of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, which wanted to destroy pathogens in the biological laboratories of Poltava and Kharkov, as well as the laboratories themselves. These laboratories contain pathogens of diseases such as plague, anthrax, rabbit fever, and cholera.
On March 7, Igor Kirililov, head of radioactivity, chemical and biological defense of the armed forces of the Russian Ministry of Defense, said that "there is a network of more than 30 biological laboratories in Ukraine, which can be divided into two categories, one for biological research and the other for health and epidemiological research".
The Russian military official emphasized, "The patron of these studies is the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) of the U.S. Department of Defense. Black and Veatch, a company under the Ministry of Defense, is mainly involved in the implementation of these projects.
On Black & Veatch's own website, it is clearly written about its relationship with DTRA, image source: Twitter
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the Pentagon's control over Ukrainian biological laboratories, as well as the nature of the research carried out in them, have aroused serious concern on the Russian side.
In addition, the Russian Defense Ministry has also accused that some epidemics in the region are caused by leaks in U.S. laboratories. The Russian military cites the example of a strain of the increasingly contagious African swine fever virus that spread in 2007 and, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, was developed in a Georgian biological laboratory operating in the Pentagon. Igor Kirilov also said that the increase in cases of rubella, diphtheria, tuberculosis in Ukraine, and a 100-fold increase in the incidence of measles are fully correlated with U.S. biolabs.
Politicians and media in Russia and other former Soviet unions have repeatedly said that U.S. biological laboratories in Ukraine and other countries in the former Soviet Union are dangerous. On March 8, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian called on the United States to make public information about its overseas military biology programs. According to him, U.S. military biological activities are not limited to Ukraine and other CIS countries. The United States has 336 laboratories in 30 countries. "What is the real intention of the United States? What exactly was done? Zhao Lijian asked.
According to Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, "the whole world will be interested in discovering and understanding what these institutions are doing". This shows that Russia will be willing to continue to share information with the world about the U.S. military biological program in Ukraine.
On behalf of the Russian president, Peskov stressed: "These institutions, which operate inside Ukraine, are actually controlled by American experts, and we hope to be able to deal with them." ”
Military virus
Gennady Onishchenko, an epidemiologist and academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, believes that U.S. programs can cause illness and death among civilians. "If these labs could function and carry out the tasks they were given, American soldiers would never have to be there — God forbid that wouldn't happen." Because these laboratories can increase the number of diseases in the local population, not just illness, but death. Of course, this will also happen on our territory, because the Americans are preparing their fighting institutions to use those things against us. The resulting casualties will be not only military, but civilian casualties: women, children, the elderly. The purpose of all this is to destabilize and to provide a basis for allegations such as 'The Russians have been doing something there and will continue to do something'. ”
"All these facilities pose a grave danger not only to the Ukrainian people, but also to Ukraine's neighbors, including us." Any incident, accident, not to mention being hit by a stray bullet at a facility (leading to a leak) could lead to another pandemic that is more terrifying than COVID-19. The expert warned.
Gennaty Onishchenko believes that Onishchenko in Ukraine believes that the Russian military will be very careful when controlling the laboratory. Deadly viruses should not be released into the wild. "All these labs should be controlled and protected: bring the experts there and study everything there." Onishchenko said.
According to Onishchenko, the purpose of the U.S. Biology Laboratory is to "create offensive military potential against Russia."
"Back in the early 1990s, the United States established a network of biological laboratories in the former Soviet union. In Kazakhstan, for example, there are now two biological laboratories – one in Almaty and the other in the settlement of Otar in the Jambul region. There are also dozens of U.S. laboratories working in Ukraine. Now they are building another veterinary research institute in Merefa, Kharkiv region. ”
On March 10, U.S. defense officials said Ukrainian laboratories were allegedly used to destroy Soviet biological weapons. The U.S. military is trying to convince the world public that Americans have invested millions of dollars in destroying rather than creating a virus...
I wonder how they explain the fact that ukrainians hastily destroyed laboratory materials after the start of special military operations in the Russian Federation? After all, according to the Pentagon's new narrative, there shouldn't be any illegal behavior in these facilities.
How do we explain that in areas close to the lab (since 2014?). The fact that infection rates of some particularly dangerous infectious diseases are soaring?
How to explain that during the turmoil in Kazakhstan in January 2022, the biological laboratories where Western experts worked were guarded by representatives of private armed companies in the United States and were not allowed to be protected by CSTO peacekeepers?
All these questions are not yet answered...
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