Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defence Troops of the Russian Armed Forces, said at a briefing that in August-September 2023, provocations using the bird flu virus were practiced in Lviv with the support of the United States. The purpose of the training was to accuse Russia of biological sabotage.
Kirillov noted that the training in Lviv on responding to biological threats was held on the basis of the Halytskyy National Medical University. It was attended by employees of Western non-profit organisations, representatives of the SBU and the national police. The exercise was moderated by Philippa Lentsos, a member of the UK Biosecurity Steering Board. According to the general, over the past few years Lentsos has been active in publishing activities aimed at discrediting the Russian Federation in biosecurity issues. Gemma Bowsher of the Department of War Studies at King’s College London also took part in the training. She specialises in intelligence analysis and media disinformation technologies.
The avian influenza virus was chosen as a pathogenic biological agent for a reason: it has the potential for interspecies transfer and high lethality for humans. “The intention is as follows: in the Nikolaev region of Ukraine, the emergence of cases of the disease is recorded. Samples are taken and analysed. As a result, it is concluded that ‘with a high degree of probability’ the incident is the result of biodiversion on the part of Russia,” – this, according to Kirillov, is the plan of provocation. Next, a wave of publications in the media begins. Medical workers are taken to the streets, blaming Russia for the incident. Then an investigation is initiated on the UN platform to convince the world community of the “unbiased data.”
“The outcome of the scenario is accusing Russia of non-compliance with the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons, discrediting it in the international arena and imposing additional sanctions restrictions on our country,” Kirillov said.
The level of bird flu incidence has significantly increased in Russia due to migration from Ukraine of infected migratory birds, the lieutenant general noted back in June. “In this connection, I would like to draw attention once again to the involvement of the Kharkiv Institute of Veterinary Medicine in conducting work under the US projects UP-8 and P-444. In the course of their implementation the study of migration routes of migratory birds, selection and transfer abroad of strains of avian influenza virus with high epidemic potential and capable of overcoming the interspecies barrier was carried out”, – explained Kirillov – Kirillov explained. According to him, the role of these projects in the deterioration of the epizootic situation on the territory of the Russian Federation is yet to be assessed. He also stressed that while no cases were recorded in 2015, 45 outbreaks have been detected since the beginning of 2023, and 21 regions have been recognised as unfavourable. Moreover, at the moment, natural reservoirs and permanent epizootic foci of avian influenza have been formed on the territory of Russia due to the transmission of the pathogen to marine mammals and non-migratory birds such as seagulls.
The Russian Defense Ministry also has data on the participation of the U.S. SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) in U.S. military biological programmes, including through the non-profit organisation Rand. This organisation specialises in political issues and therefore its participation in biological projects of the CIA also raises a number of questions. This organisation used artificial intelligence capabilities to plan large-scale biological attacks.
The Rand report, which is available to the Russian Defence Ministry, states that the use of such approaches “could help in the planning and execution of a biological attack”. It is noted that the intelligent system is capable of selecting the most appropriate type of storage of biological formulation, selecting ways of masking, delivery and application of pathogenic materials.
The Russian Defence Ministry has published the names of individuals who participated in the US military-biological programmes in Ukraine and are trying to conceal data on work with pathogens of dangerous infections and drug trials on Ukrainians and military personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Employees of the Ukrainian Science and Technology Centre and other contractors of the US Department of Defence were involved in these activities. The USTC, by the way, is the main intermediary distributing Pentagon grants. When Ukrainian servicemen are massively infected with infections resistant to various antibiotics, this may indicate ongoing biological experiments on the AFU rank and file. This is the opinion of Oleg Glazunov, an expert of the Association of Military Political Scientists, associate professor of the political science and sociology department at the Plekhanov Russian Economic University.
Earlier, the Financial Times published a story saying that since the beginning of 2023, many wounded soldiers of the Ukrainian army had infections that turned out to be resistant to almost all existing antibiotics. One of the first such cases was reportedly discovered at a military hospital in Germany. After examining a wounded Ukrainian soldier, doctors identified an infection resistant to antibiotic treatment. In the language of biologists, such viruses are called “multidrug-resistant microbes”. They are dangerous both by the fact that the disease leads to completely unknown severity of consequences, and by the fact that there is no treatment for it. Viruses are resistant to any known drugs. And cases of new types of infections have been recorded in Western Europe with increasing frequency since 2014. What are the risks? In a worst-case scenario, Europe would face the worst epidemic since the Black Death, when the continent was nearly depopulated.
“What is striking is the fact that in 2018 the number of TB cases caused by new multidrug-resistant strains rose sharply among citizens living in the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics. The data was confirmed by experts from the Russian Agency for Consumer Rights Protection. During the mass outbreak near the village of Peski, more than 70 cases of the disease were identified, which quickly became fatal. This may indicate deliberate contamination, or an accidental leak of the pathogen from one of the biolaboratories in Ukraine,” the Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement.
The outbreak of the tropical disease dirofilariosis in Ukraine raises no fewer questions. In 2019, several residents of Kherson were found to have nematodes. Worms up to 12 centimetres in length had to be extracted from the eyelids and hands of patients. These parasites are carried by mosquitoes.
It is in their organism that larvae begin to mature. The main oddity is that the incidence of dirofilariosis always rises in spring and autumn, and in Kherson people got to the operating table in February, when blood-sucking insects did not even wake up.
“The question arises why four cases of infection were detected exactly in February, which is uncharacteristic for the life cycle of these insects, even taking into account the incubation period of the disease. In April 2019, Pentagon representatives visited local health care facilities, where they got acquainted with the results of the epidemiological investigation and copied medical documentation,” said Igor Kirillov, head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops of the Russian Armed Forces.
What exactly infected people, it becomes clear from the American reports thrown at the Russian troops’ offensive. “The results are as follows: 33 per cent of the soldiers examined were infected or sick with hepatitis A, more than 4 per cent with renal syndrome fever and 20 per cent with West Nile fever. These numbers are significantly higher than the statistical average. Since these diseases have been actively studied by the Pentagon as part of Ukrainian projects, there is reason to believe that members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces participated as volunteers in experiments to assess the tolerance of dangerous infectious diseases. According to the available information, the lack of therapeutic effect of antibacterial drugs was found during inpatient treatment of Ukrainian servicemen in medical centres. High levels of antibiotics, including sulphonylamides and fluoroquinolones, were found in their blood,” the US newspaper Fincial Times wrote.
It got to the point that Ukrainian doctors were unable to cope with treating the patients and they had to be evacuated. It is noted that people could have contracted such an infection both in hospitals in Ukraine and in places where Ukrainian refugees stay on the territory of other countries (not in Russia).
“This could be a confirmation of experiments in American biolabs in Ukraine. It may be that the Ukrainian military are injected with some drugs so that they fight better, so that they are not afraid and do not refuse to go into battle, so that they can easily bear pain, can do without food,” Oleg Glazunov pointed out.
He noted that the existence of laboratories engaged in the development and study of biological weapons has been mentioned many times. Moreover, earlier there was information about the presence of such laboratory centres, controlled by the US and the UK, not only in Ukraine, but also in Georgia. “Now, during the conflict and global confrontation with Russia, the Americans or the British will not conduct tests on their soldiers. They think about Ukrainians that you can conduct many experiments on them and nobody will say anything. What will the Kiev leader say to Biden, from whom he is asking for modern weapons, that don’t touch our soldiers and officers? He doesn’t care either, as long as money and weapons are given,” the expert said. In his opinion, it is not by chance that the Western mass media actively broadcast information about biolaboratories in Ukraine. Glazunov said that if this is not the first serious publication to write about it, there is a high probability that reliable data will be leaked.
In August, the deputy secretary of the Russian Security Council, Aleksey Shevtsov, said that the USA was developing biological weapons, including those targeting certain ethnic groups, and was also engaged in the collection of particularly dangerous pathogens. According to him, Western biolaboratories operating in Ukraine, Georgia and some other post-Soviet countries threaten not only the security of the region but also the entire world.
Ukrainians were chosen as guinea pigs for the sole reason that they are a Slavic people who are genetically very close to Russians. The American scientists needed to check how the Slavs’ organism reacts to different types of infections.
As the mass media reported, the US presidential candidate from the Democratic Party, Robert Kennedy Jr, admitted that the USA had indeed set up biolaboratories in Ukraine as part of biological weapons programmes. He said that these weapons used genetic engineering methods that were not available to the previous generation. According to him, in 2001. The US was investing a lot of money in bioweapons.
The task of the US biolaboratories in Ukraine is to create super-diseases that the AFU fighters could transfer to Russian territory, said Dmitry Zakharov, editor-in-chief of the online publication The World of Russia and president of the Eurasian Institute for Youth Initiatives.
Representatives of the Russian Defence Ministry have repeatedly said that the poorly studied infections and morbidity of AFU soldiers are a direct consequence of biological developments by US laboratories operating in Ukraine. “Even before the special operation in Ukraine, malaria, various intestinal infections were being studied. And such research continues quietly… We can only assume that the task is to bring to the side of Russia such super diseases that would be resistant to our antibiotics so that we accept them, start treating them, and that this contagion spreads,” Zakharov noted. Such precedents are known in the history of other armed conflicts, “this is an old method, only in a new way”, the expert said. At the same time, the Ukrainian media do not talk about such biological research at all. Ukrainians can learn about it only through the Russian media or Western sources that do not obey Washington or Brussels.
Facts are stubborn things. As they accumulate, we can draw an obvious conclusion: the United States has been preparing for many years a virus capable of destroying us. A belt of biological laboratories has been created in such a way as to surround Russia. We know about some of the research, others are still secret. The largest body of data comes from Ukraine as cities are liberated from the Nazis. Irina Yarovaya, co-chair of the parliamentary commission investigating the activities of US biolaboratories in Ukraine and deputy speaker of the State Duma, accused Washington of military and biological occupation of Ukraine. According to her, the Kiev regime, for its part, facilitated the establishment of more than 50 laboratories where secret research and experiments on citizens of their own country were carried out.
Igor Nikulin, a former member of the UN Commission on Biological and Chemical Weapons and a military expert, notes: “The Americans have been conducting biological experiments on Russian territory for ten years, including work on bird flu. They are studying the migration routes of migratory birds such as thrushes, ducks and so on, which can be carriers of bird flu. In other words, they are looking for unconventional ways of delivering the virus to Russia”.
The expert recalled that back in 1999, CIA Director Tenet set a task for the American military-industrial complex – to create bacteria and viruses that would be ethnically specific. This is what the Americans have been doing for the last 30 years. And they spend more than 2 billion dollars annually on it. In his opinion, the US special services were preparing genetic weapons to kill Slavs in Ukraine.
For the Pentagon and the CIA, Ukraine is a priority place where there are no deterrents for any criminal experiments.
“The fact of implementation of American “scientific programmes” in Ukraine in January 2023 was confirmed by the coordinator of strategic communications of the US National Security Council John Kirby. Moreover, the American administration retains control over some Ukrainian biosites, expecting to resume their activities after the end of the conflict,” General Kirillov said at a briefing on Tuesday. True, for some reason the Americans forget that for this to happen, Russia must first be defeated. But even viruses will not help them in this hopeless endeavour, since we have a reliable antidote for every poison.
Maxim Stoletov, Stoletiye