March, 27, 2022

The Russian Ministry of Defence continues to analyze official Ukrainian documents revealing the military-biological activities of the Pentagon in Ukraine.

The incoming materials allow to trace the pattern of interaction between U.S. government agencies and Ukrainian biolabs. The involvement of entities close to the current U.S. leadership, notably the Rosemont Seneca investment fund run by Hunter Biden, is noticeable in the funding of these activities. The Fund has significant financial resources of at least $2.4 billion. The foundation is closely linked to key contractors of the U.S. MoD, including Metabiota, which, along with Black and Veach, is a major supplier of relevant equipment to the Pentagon's biolabs around the world.

The scale of the program is impressive.

The U.S. Agency for International Development, the George Soros Foundation and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention are directly involved, in addition to the Pentagon. Scientific supervision is provided by leading research organizations, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is developing nuclear weapons.

All these activities are carried out under the full control of the Pentagon.

30 Ukrainian laboratories, located in 14 Ukrainian cities were involved in full-scale military-biological activities.

One document was signed by Viktor Polishchuk, Deputy State Secretary of the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers. The legal basis for its signing was the Agreement on Cooperation to Prevent the Spread of Technologies, Pathogens and Information that could be used for the development of biological weapons.

The key contractor was the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

The funding for 2018-2020 alone was around $32 million. The text of the document proves that the United States, its personnel and contractors are exempt from the obligation to pay taxes or other similar fees that are levied in Ukraine.

The Russian Ministry of Defence has disclosed and summarized the flow of biomaterials. Funding for military-biological activities has enabled the USA and its allies to export at least 16,000 bio samples outside Ukraine.

Thus, under the UP-8 project in Lvov, Kharkov, Odessa and Kiev, blood samples were taken from 4,000 Ukrainian servicemen for antibodies to hantaviruses and from 400 for antibodies to the Congo-Crimean fever virus. According to figures published in the Bulgarian media, some 20 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in experiments in the Kharkov laboratory alone and another 200 were hospitalized.

This large-scale screening of the natural immunity of the population was probably carried out in order to select the biological agents most dangerous to the population of a particular region. Documents review reveals that not only human tissue and serum samples, but also dangerous pathogens and their transporters were exported. Thus, more than 10,000 samples were sent to Lugar Centre in Georgia. Other recipients include: reference laboratories in the UK and the Loeffler Institute in Germany.

All this creates risks for the transfer abroad of sensitive genetic information, as well as threats to biological security not only for Ukraine, but also for the regions where the samples were transferred.

One of the U.S. customers' priorities is the anthrax pathogen, which is highly susceptible and persistent in the environment.

The slide shows documents from the UP-2 project, one of the tasks of which was to identify dead animal burial sites, taking soil samples from anthrax animal burial sites. The interest of U.S. military biologists in studying insect vectors in animal burial sites is also not accidental. Apparently, they analyzed the results of an outbreak of anthrax disease in Yamal in 2016, during which cases of vector-borne transmission through flies and gadflies were recorded.

Given that the situation with anthrax in Ukraine remains positive, it raises the question of the need for the Pentagon's research and its true purpose.

It has been established that examples where the U.S. military departments work with anthrax has ended in biosecurity emergencies. Between 2005 and 2015, viable anthrax spores were sent from the U.S. Army's Dugway proving ground to 194 recipients in ten countries.

The current situation with the shipment of pathogenic biomaterials from Ukraine to European countries could result in loss of life and create a hotbed of epidemiological instability on a scale comparable to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Russia continues to share information on research involving Ukrainian military personnel. Such work is prohibited within the U.S. and is carried out by the U.S. Pentagon outside the continental USA.

The documents confirmed the attempt to test previously untested medicines on them. This is the Deep Drug screening system for unlicensed pharmaceuticals in the United States and Canada.

What makes the U.S. sponsors particularly cynical is that the developer, Scymount, offered to purchase the system in question on a commercial basis, despite the fact that Ukrainian Ministry of Defence officials were engaged as volunteers.

Such unacceptable approaches, with the tacit approval of the U.S. administration, are the norm for big pharma companies. For example, the U.S. Naval Medical Centre in Jakarta was shut down by Indonesian authorities in 2010 because of numerous irregularities. The Americans conducted work at the site outside the agreed research programme, collected biological samples and refused to inform the Indonesian government of their findings. The materials they obtained were used on behalf of the Pentagon-affiliated pharmaceutical company Gilead, which conducts trials of its drugs, including in Ukraine and Georgia.

The number of biological laboratories in the USA is not comparable with other countries. According to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, they control 336 laboratories in 30 states outside national jurisdiction.

In the context of the incoming information, clarification should be sought from Washington regarding the true objectives of the U.S. biolaboratories as part of the international investigation, including in Ukraine. Russia’s revelations of documents pertaining to US-backed biolabs in Ukraine deserve the world’s attention, and the parties involved need to address those concerns, China’s permanent representative to the UN told the Security Council on March 25th.

2. Humanitarian tragedy still unfolds

The Russian Federation continues its purposeful and coordinated work on the evacuation of civilians and foreign citizens from combat zones, as well as the provision of humanitarian assistance to the population in the territories of Ukraine liberated from neo-Nazis.

Humanitarian corridors in the Kiev, Chernigov, Sumy, Kharkov and Mariupol directions have been opened daily since 10 a.m. by the Russian side, with exit for civilians and foreign citizens provided both to the Russian Federation and to the west - through territories controlled by the official Kiev.

As of the current 24 hours, the Ukrainian side has not agreed on any of the humanitarian corridors proposed by Russia, but has announced 13 additional routes exclusively in Kiev-controlled territories.

The Ukrainian authorities, by continuing to impose no alternative humanitarian corridors, are once again purposefully and inhumanely depriving their citizens of the right to freedom of choice of residence and movement, contrary to the desire of ordinary people to escape the neo-Nazi lawlessness.

The official Kiev rejects with cynical "persistence" initiatives proposed by the Russian side to save millions of Ukrainian citizens, who are being held as "human shields" in blockaded settlements by mad neo-Nazis. This is the monstrous intention of the Ukrainian nationalists - to influence the course of the special military operation by the Russian Armed Forces and the formations of the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics by any means, including criminal actions, under cover of defenceless civilians, in the hope of getting help from their Western sponsors.

Pursuing exclusively humane principles, in order to ensure the safe evacuation of civilians forcibly held by nationalists in blocked settlements, on all, including new routes, the Russian Armed Forces and military formations of the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics fully comply with the imposed ceasefire.

On the contrary, the Ukrainian authorities, while claiming to be ready to secure routes in Kiev-controlled territories and ostensibly committed to humanistic principles, are obstructing the withdrawal of civilians to safe areas and blocking humanitarian actions, which once again confirms their true, inhumane intentions.

Once again we draw the attention of the United Nations, the OSCE and the International Committee of the Red Cross to the criminal policy of the official Kiev towards Ukrainian citizens and its flagrant violations not only of international humanitarian law but also of its own constitution.

The Russian Federation's Joint Coordination Headquarters for the Humanitarian Response in Ukraine continues to thoroughly document numerous egregious instances of violence against civilians.

Here are just some of them over the past day:

in Kramatorsk, a vehicle delivering drinking water to civilians was hit by a mortar. As a result, three people were injured and two were concussed. The shelling was cynically carried out at the time of distribution of water to the local population;

in Odessa, on the instructions of the governor of the region, the Khadjibey dam was mined, which the neo-Nazis plan to blow up. If these criminal acts are realised, densely populated areas will be in the flood zone along with the townspeople. At the same time, an attempt by a representative of the Ukrainian state emergency service to prevent the said mad decision was rudely and harshly suppressed to the point of threatening to shoot him.

Thus, the Kiev authorities are everywhere demonstrating their complete indifference to their own people and their willingness to sacrifice innocent people in favour of the geopolitical goals of their "Western masters".

Despite all this, with difficulty, but with the observance of all necessary security measures, we manage to save thousands of lives of civilians and foreign citizens every day.

Despite all the difficulties and obstacles imposed by the Ukrainian side, over the past day, without Kiev,s assistance, 19,624 people were evacuated from dangerous areas, 3,300 of them children, and in total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 439,420 people have already been evacuated, of which 91,673 are children.

The state border of the Russian Federation was crossed by 51,638 vehicles, of which 2,276 per day.

In Mariupol, also without any involvement from the Ukrainian side, 98,081 people have already been rescued from the lawlessness of the nationalists, including 4,183 in the past 24 hours.

A significant part of the population forcibly held by radicals in Ukrainian cities is still looking for any opportunities to evacuate to the territory of Russia, as evidenced by numerous appeals of citizens to Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine official structures, public organizations, directly to the subjects of our country, to relatives and friends, as well as acquaintances living in the Russian Federation.

According to the results of daily monitoring, it was found that only over the past day another 2,125 such appeals were received, and in total there are already 2,728,457 persons in the Russian database with specific surnames and addresses from 2,095 settlements of Ukraine.

Despite the humanitarian corridors opening daily, Ukrainian nationalists continue to hold more than 4,500,000 civilians as a "human shield" in Kiev, Kharkov, Chernigov, Sumy and more than 20 other blocked large settlements.

Additionally, 6,577 foreigners from 23 countries remain hostages of the territorial defence battalions and 67 foreign vessels from 15 countries are blocked in Ukrainian ports. The threat of shelling and high mine danger created by official Kiev in its internal waters and territorial sea prevents vessels from safely leaving the ports of Kherson, Nikolaev, Chernomorsk, Ochakov, Odessa and Yuzhny and reaching the open sea.

More than 9,500 temporary accommodation centres continue to operate in the regions of the Russian Federation. A sufficient number of motor vehicles, including comfortable buses, are located at the checkpoints to take refugees to their chosen places of residence or to temporary accommodation facilities where medical care and hot meals are organized.

The federal executive authorities, with the active participation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, non-governmental organizations and patriotic movements in the territories under the control of the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics and the Russian Armed Forces, are providing humanitarian aid of an unprecedented scale to the long-suffering Ukrainian people.

The most active part in this most important humanitarian work is taken by:Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, Federal Agency for State Reserves, Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, Federal Agency for Nationalities, Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation, Federal Agency for Water Resources; Republics of Buryatia and Tatarstan, Moscow, Tula, Voronezh and Bryansk regions, Stavropol Territory and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area; Among political parties and non-profit organisations: United Russia, the All-Russian public organization of veterans Boyevoe Bratstvo, the autonomous non-profit organization supporting humanitarian programmes Russian Humanitarian Mission and the All-Russian public movement People's Front.

More than 20,500 tons of basic necessities, food and medicines have been prepared at the collection points.

Since March 2^nd 2022, 5,298 tons of humanitarian cargo have already been delivered to Ukraine, 645 humanitarian actions have been carried out, including 28 actions in Kiev, Kharkov, Sumy and Kherson regions, as well as in Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, during which 255 tons of basic necessities, medicines and food were transferred to the civilian population of the liberated areas.

Today, 13 humanitarian actions are being held in Chernigov and Kherson regions and republics of Donbass and Lugansk as well as in the liberated settlements of Ukraine, within the framework of which 110 tons of basic necessities and food packages, including baby food and vital medicines, are being transferred to the population.

3. Drifting sea mines released by Ukraine

With worsening hydrometeorological conditions in the northern part of the Black Sea, the threat of derailed anchor mines drifting along the coast of the Black Sea states remains (drifting mines will reach the territorial sea of Romania after four days and Bulgaria after ten days).

In confirmation of this, the Russian Federation is opening daily from 08:00 to 19:00 (Moscow time) a humanitarian sea corridor, which is a safe lane south-west of Ukraine's territorial sea, 80 nautical miles long and three nautical miles wide.

At the same time, so far the Ukrainian side has not confirmed its readiness to ensure the safety of foreign vessels entering the assembly area and is avoiding any kind of interaction to resolve this issue.

Russia called on the entire international community, especially the International Maritime Organization, to exert influence on official Kiev and take effective measures to unblock and secure the exit of foreign vessels from Ukrainian ports.

Turkish military has intercepted one Ukrainian naval mine near the Bosphorus strait, the country’s Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on March 25th. There is unconfirmed report that the second such drifting mine was spotted in that area.

There is no danger to the freedom of civil navigation on the part of the Russian Federation.

4. Situation at the battlegrounds

During the day's fighting, more than 30 servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces of 54th Mechanised Brigade, 6 armoured vehicles and 2 field artillery mounts of 46th Separate Assault Battalion were destroyed. The defending units of the 25th Ukrainian Separate Airborne Brigade are suffering significant losses. Most of the fortifications have already been destroyed.

Units of the Russian Armed Forces are fighting for the capture of Novomikhailovka. The offensive continues against the well-fortified concrete fortifications in Novoselovka and Novobakhmutovka settlements.

During the day, up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen were destroyed, 7 long-term firing points and 5 armoured targets in protected shelters were damaged.

On March 26th, high-precision, long-range aviation weapons destroyed a large fuel base near Lvov, which provided fuel for Ukrainian troops in western Ukraine, as well as near Kiev. In addition, high-precision cruise missiles have destroyed the workshops of Lvov Radio Repair Plant in Lvov city. This enterprise has overhauled and upgraded Tor and S-125 anti-aircraft missile systems, radar stations for Ukrainian air force, electronic warfare equipment and sights for tanks. Also, high-precision sea-based long-range weapons destroyed a warehouse of missiles for S-300 and Buk anti-aircraft missile systems in Plesetskoye, 30 kilometres southwest of Kiev city.

Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 67 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.Among them: 2 command posts, 3 field depots with arms and ammunition, 11 strongholds of Ukrainian Armed Forces units and 20 areas of military equipment concentration. Russian air defence means overnight destroyed 18 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over Novaya Basan, Peski, Borispol, Shchors, Vishnevoe, Kryukovka and Petrovskiy.

In total, from February 24^th 289 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,656 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 169 multiple launch rocket systems, 684 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,503  special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.

5. Food for thought

It has been reported that Dalai Lama and other persons issued an appeal with the demand to stop “aggression” in Ukraine and not use nuclear weapons there.

It is very strange that such noble and highly respected person like Dalai Lama and other persons made two political mistakes in their appeal.

First, there is no "invasion" into Ukraine, but liberation of it from neo-nazis and to save lives of civilians in Donbass. War criminals in Kiev have killed 14.000 civilians in Donbass during two Ukrainian aggressions vs it in 2014-2015. Such figure is recognized by the UNO.

From February 17th, 2022 till March 26th, 2022 in Donetsk People's Republic only Kiev also killed 64 and injured 534 peaceful citizens, including 46 kids. 1704 living houses, 439 social civilian buildings, like hospitals (26), educational assets (59) and life support systems like gas and water pipelines (241) have been destroyed there.

Each day the Ukrainian Armed Forces shell residential areas in Donbass where there are no military targets by firing about 100-200 arty and mortar shells and missiles. From March 26^th they released more than 300 such shells and missiles from Grad MRLS, 122 mm artillery and 120 mm mortars.

Such tragic figures eloquently prove that Moscow was right when it started from February 24th, 2022 a military operation aimed at demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.

Second, Russia has never announced its desire to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine: a) the Russian Senate has not made any decision to use them; b) there is no need to use them at all – Russia made major success in destroying a war machine of Ukrainian neo-nazis by using conventional weapons. Ukrainian Navy, Air Force and AAD have been nearly ruined and Donbass ultra-nationalist battalion destroyed.

The U.S. stance on potential use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine is not known. At the same time it is clear that Washington is still committed to employ its nuclear weapons in the first strike in many cases (see PPT slide).

Unfortunately, there is a dead silence from the co-authors of that appeal on all these facts described in several short sentences.

By the end of March 2022 President Putin’s popularity has reached by 77,9% (in February 2022 it was 64,3%)

Written by Vladimir P. Kozin