The evidence found records showing that a pharmaceutical company contracted by the Pentagon worked with Ukraine’s defense ministry to test unregistered drugs on military personnel in that country.
Major General Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry. (Photo: PL)
Russian military experts have found new evidence showing US involvement in the development of biological weapons components in Ukraine, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said on March 24.
This ministry will soon submit original documents showing that the UP2 biological project has been implemented and approved by the Pentagon, Konashenkov announced.
“The main goal of this project was the molecular analysis of particularly dangerous infections endemic to Ukraine. This work consisted of taking samples of the pathogen from old cattle cemeteries to obtain new strains of anthrax, he explained.
According to the senior Russian official, the US Department of Defense’s experiments were not limited to developing dangerous infections.
He warned that the evidence found showed that a pharmaceutical company contracted by the Pentagon was working with Ukraine’s defense ministry to test unregistered drugs on military personnel in that country.
The spokesman said the agency continues to study reports from Ukrainian lab workers about classified US military biological activities in Ukraine.
Evidence of the existence of USfunded military biolabs in Ukraine recently corroborated the Kremlin’s claims about the danger posed to Russia by the militarization of Kiev. Earlier this month, the Russian Defense Ministry said it had evidence of the existence of a network of more than 30 biological laboratories serving the US Defense Department’s Threat Reduction Agency.
The head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces of the Armed Forces Igor Kirillov reported that on February 24, with the start of the Russian military operation, these centers received an order from the Ministry of Health of Ukraine to completely destroy bioagents in laboratories.
He noted that what was needed to continue the militarybiological program was removed from Ukrainian territory before evidence was destroyed.
He added that among the priorities of these laboratories was monitoring the biological situation in the suspected areas of operation of military contingents of member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
