The Ministry of Defense tied ASF outbreaks with US tests of biological weapons in Georgia

Materials on the activities in Georgia of the American Center for Public Health. Richard Lugar, represented by ex-Minister of State Security of the Republic, Igor Giorgadze, allowed the Russian Ministry of Defense “to take a fresh look at the biological situation in southern Russia.” In particular, with the US tests biological weapons, which one way or another speak presented by a former official documents in the department associated outbreak of African swine fever and the anomalous spread of insect vectors.

As Igor Kirillov, the head of the radiation, chemical and biological defense forces, said at a briefing on Thursday, October 4, it was from Georgia that the swine fever spread to Russia, European countries and China only in 2007-2018. the country has more than 5 billion rubles, while indirect losses have exceeded 50 billion.

“In the region of the Lugar center, the situation is particularly worsening due to diseases that are spread by insect vectors,” the major general said. In particular, he referred to the data of the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention, according to which the range of various types of mosquitoes, which were previously found only in Georgia and other southern countries, has now shifted to the territory of some subjects of the Russian Federation.

“The atypical dynamics of the expansion of the vector area makes us pay attention to Igor Giorgadze’s information about the development by Americans of technical means of delivering and using biological weapons,” Igor Kirillov said, mentioning the patent “on an unmanned aerial vehicle for the spread of infected insects in the air.”

“A natural question arises:“ Why are such documents kept at the Richard Lugar Public Health Center? ”We expect to receive a clear answer from the Georgian and American sides,” concluded a high-ranking Russian military official.