Moscow-Sana
The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed that it had information about the implementation of 10 projects in Ukraine under the auspices of the United States, which included work on pathogens of particularly dangerous infections and economic impact.
"The office of the US Secretary of Defense has prepared a memorandum for mapping especially dangerous pathogens in Ukraine, collecting information on the molecular structure of the pathogens of these pathogens, and transferring samples of the strain to the United States," the commander of the radiological, chemical and biological protection forces of the Russian army, Igor Kirillov, said in a statement today.
Kirillov pointed out that a similar memorandum was prepared with the aim of studying rickettsia and other diseases spread by arthropods, and said, "The document indicated the need to transfer all groups of particularly dangerous pathogens to the central reference laboratory, which made it possible to facilitate the process of their regulated export to the United States."
According to Kirilov, a large-scale project was implemented in Ukraine to study the possibility of spreading particularly dangerous infections through migratory birds, indicating that the documents received show that only for the period from November 2019 to January 2020 991 biological samples were collected.
Kirillov also noted that Russia has information about the implementation of ten such projects that involved working with pathogens of particularly dangerous and economically significant infections such as Congo fever, leptospirosis, tick-borne encephalitis and African swine fever.
Kirillov confirmed that the Ukrainian biological laboratories were linked to a network run by the Pentagon to control the global spread of infectious diseases, explaining that the network is managed by the Walter Reed Army Research Institute in Maryland.
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