April, 1st, 2022
1. More facts on the U.S. biolabs are found
The Russian Defence Ministry continues to study materials on the implementation of military biological programs conducted by the USA and its NATO allies on the territory of Ukraine.
Earlier, the diagram of the interaction of government agencies and the current military-political leadership of the United States with Ukrainian biological facilities has been made public (see PPT slide). In particular, the involvement of the Investment Fund, headed by Hunter Biden, in financing biological programs in Ukraine was noted.
Here is the correspondence of the son of the current U.S. President Joseph Biden with employees of the Threat Reduction Agency of the US Department of Defence and Pentagon contractors in Ukraine. The presence of these materials is confirmed by Western media.
The content of the letters shows that Hunter Biden played an important role in creating a financial opportunity to work with pathogens on the territory of Ukraine, providing funds for the companies Black and Veatch and Metabiota.
The published correspondence shows that the true goals of the Pentagon in Ukraine are far from scientific. So, in one of the letters, the vice president of Metabiota notes that the company's activities will be aimed at ensuring "... cultural and economic independence of Ukraine from Russia ...", which is quite strange for a biotech company.
Russia announced the names of specific officials who took part in the creation of biological weapons components on the territory of Ukraine.
One of the key figures is Robert Pope, at that time an employee of DTRA and director of the Joint Threat Reduction Program, whose goal was to involve the states of the post–Soviet space in military biological activities. He is also the author of the idea of creating a central depository of especially dangerous microorganisms in Kiev.
In his letter to the Minister of Health Ulyana Suprun (by the way, US citizens) Pope highly appreciates the activities of the head of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, especially noting the provision of admission of American specialists to Ukrainian biological objects and the beginning of work on the formation of a depository of microorganisms.
Let me remind you how this activity ended: according to the available information, all pathogenic biomaterials from the storage in early February 2022 were transported by military transport aircraft to the United States via Odessa.
The coordination of military biological projects in Ukraine and the selection of performers was led by Joanna Wintrol, head of the DTRA office in Ukraine. Under her direct supervision, American projects UP-4, UP- 6, UP - 8 were implemented to study deadly pathogens, including anthrax, Congo-Crimean fever, leptospirosis.
In continuation - the Ukrainian division of the company Black and Veatch, which is headed by Lance Lippencott. He is also the main contact person for officials of the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.
The company has been working in the interests of the Pentagon since 2008 as part of projects to study potentially dangerous bioagents. Among them is the UP-1 project on the study of rickettsias and tick-borne encephalitis virus in arthropods in the north-west of Ukraine. In order to globally monitor the biological situation during the UP-2 project, the company implemented a remote monitoring system for the incidence of tularemia and anthrax at Ukrainian biological facilities.
The issues of biomonitoring and information transmission were supervised by David Mustra, who is closely associated with another Pentagon contractor, Metabiota. Previously, he led military biological projects in Ukraine and Eastern Europe as part of the Joint Threat Reduction Program.
It should be noted that the activities of the company Black and Veatch caused a lot of questions even from the Ukrainian special services.
So, back in 2017, the Kherson department of the SSU in its memo indicated (quote): "... recently, the potential threat of deterioration of the epidemic situation in our country has been actualized, due to the intentions of DTRA through the company Black and Veatch to establish control over the functioning of microbiological laboratories in Ukraine conducting research on pathogens of particularly dangerous infections that can be used to create or modernize new types of biological weapons ..." (unquote).
Metabiota is known for its developments in predicting outbreaks of infectious diseases. In addition, it was involved by the Pentagon in modeling the epidemic situation in the post-Soviet space. On the territory of Ukraine, Metabiota was represented by Mary Guttieri, the vice president of the company and a confidant of Hunter Biden, which is confirmed by the materials of their correspondence.
Scott Thornton supervised the modernization of laboratories. In addition, he advised local staff on the handling of particularly dangerous pathogens within the framework of Ukrainian DTRA projects.
The information received demonstrates the direct participation of the U.S. MoD and their contractors in the planning and implementation of the Pentagon projects on the territory of Ukraine. Russia believes that the listed officials should answer questions about the true goals of these works.
Earlier, attention is drawn to the facts of the development in the United States of technical means of delivery and the use of biological weapons. Thus, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Agency issued document No. 8,967,029 for an unmanned aerial vehicle for the spread of infected insects in the air. The description of the patent states that with the help of this device, enemy troops can be eliminated or disabled without risk to US military personnel.
Other patents, which are presented on the slide, show various types of ammunition for the delivery of chemical and biological formulations. In their description, the characteristics are noted: "... low specific cost of defeat and no need for contact with enemy manpower ...". This corresponds to the concept of "contactless war" implemented by Washington. The possibility of equipping capsules with toxic, radioactive, narcotic substances, as well as pathogens of infectious diseases is shown.
Russia reminds that these documents came to the attention of the public in connection with the investigation of the activities of another biological project of the Pentagon – the Lugar center in Tbilisi.
In 2018, the Russian Foreign Ministry appealed to the U.S. State Department with a request to give a legal assessment of the development of such technical devices from the standpoint of compliance with the Conventions on the Prohibition of Chemical and Biological Weapons. The U.S. administration limited itself to a formal reply, cynically thanking the Russian side for drawing attention to this issue and pointing out that "... the development and production of biological and chemical weapons are prohibited by national legislation, but the decision to grant a patent does not violate US obligations under the BWC and CWC ...".
In the context of the above, attention is drawn to the request of the Ukrainian company “Motor Sich” to the Turkish manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles Bayraktar. Russia emphasized that this document is dated December 15, 2021. Its essence is as follows: is it possible to equip this UAV with systems and mechanisms for spraying aerosols with a capacity of more than 20 liters.
With the flight range of such a UAV – up to 300 km and the equipment of containers with biological formulations – a real threat of large-scale use of biological weapons on the territory of the Russian Federation is created.
In fact, Russia talks about the development by the Kiev regime of technical means of delivery and use of biological weapons with the possibility of their use against the Russian Federation
An important result of the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces was the termination of the activities of five Kiev biological laboratories, in which work was carried out with pathogens of anthrax, tularemia, brucellosis, cholera, leptospirosis, African swine fever.
Part of the collection was exported to the USA, the remaining strains were urgently destroyed in accordance with the Order of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine dated February 24, 2022.
The facts of the participation of these laboratories in carrying out work commissioned by the American military department have been confirmed. At one of these biological facilities – the Public Health Center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine – several UP projects were implemented at once with a total funding of more than $ 30 million.
Russia urged to pay attention to the decision signed by the head of the ethics committee of the said center on June 12, 2019 within the framework of the UP-8 project. The document testifies to the conduct of research with an unknown risk to the life and health of the participants, as well as the concealment of the identity of the subjects.
Previously, Russia cited the research program of this project and it assumes only a standard procedure for blood sampling. The question arises: what kind of life–threatening tests are it is talking about if the document prescribes that "... minor incidents with volunteers must be reported to the U.S. bioethics committee 72 hours after the incident, and serious ones, including the death of the subjects, within 24 hours ..."?
Russia does not exclude that the official research program is only the "visible part of the iceberg", while in practice, volunteers were infected with the Congo–Crimean fever virus, hantaviruses and the causative agent of leptospirosis.
Such a dismissive attitude towards the citizens of Ukraine well characterizes the pragmatic approach of the United States to the organization of military biological research. Developing countries are considered as a testing ground for biological weapons components and medicines.
Russia believes that the incoming documents testify to the actual violation by the United States and Ukraine of obligations under Article 4 of the BWC and UN Security Council Resolution No. 1540 of April 28, 2004.
Russian MoD will continue to analyze the documentary evidence of violations by the American administration and the Kiev regime of international agreements on the non-proliferation of biological weapons. The world public will be informed in due course.
Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Office in Geneva Gennady Gatilov on March 31st said Russia obtained data on the U.S. military biological activities in Ukraine suggesting that Washington is considering the possibility of using biological and toxin weapons.
"The data we have obtained on US military biological activities in Ukraine prompt a reexamination of the issue of upholding by Washington of its reservation to the 1925 Geneva Protocol, whose authority is the foundation of the BWC (the Biological Weapons Convention)," he said. "In addition, reasonable doubts emerge with respect to the true objectives of the Bioshield program, which the USA has been conducting since 2004 with the stated purpose of protecting U.S military and civilian persons from the use of biological and toxin weapons."
He didn’t rule out that these facts have a "logical connection which suggests that the USA not only is conducting military biological research, but is also considering the possibility of using this type of WMD."
Documents confirm that Germany was implementing its own military biological program in Ukraine, he added.
According to him, apart from research and scientific experiments, Ukraine’s territory was also used for the provision of biomaterials and strains of dangerous biological pathogens to military laboratories in the United States and other countries, including the United Kingdom, Georgia and Germany.
"In particular, more than 10,000 samples were sent to the Lugar Center in Georgia. Recipients also include a reference lab in the United Kingdom, where 773 samples were sent, as well as Germany’s Leffler Institute. It’s worth noting that documents confirm that Germany was implementing its own military biological program in Ukraine, which was aimed at studying the potential of deadly diseases, such as Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever, in Eastern Europe," Gatilov pointed out.
2. Kiev endangers navigation at the Black Sea
On March 31st, 2022 the Russian MoD issued the relevant statement.
As part of a tour through Western parliaments to collect weapons for 'defending Europe and democracy', Zelensky, speaking to Norwegian Storting MPs on March 30, accused Russia of allegedly 'mining the sea' and blocking foreign ships in Ukrainian ports.
Given Zelensky's ignorance of the real situation outside Kiev and the activities of his own subordinates, we officially inform.
Between February 25 and March 4, 2022, the remnants of the Ukrainian navy's mine clearing forces planted about 420 sea anchor mines of the YaM-1 type in the waters of Black and Azov seas, 370 in the Black Sea and 50 in the Azov Sea.
As a result of stormy conditions in the Black Sea and due to poor technical condition, about 10 Ukrainian mines have had their bottom anchor wires broken.
Since then, under the influence of wind and surface flows, the Ukrainian mines have drifted freely southwards in the western part of the Black Sea.
One Ukrainian mine was recently discovered and neutralized by Turkish sailors. The second Ukrainian mine is neutralized in Romanian territorial waters.
No one can know where the remaining Ukrainian mines are drifting today. The leadership of the Kiev nationalist regime, which by its criminal actions has created a direct mine threat to the transport and cargo ships of all Black Sea countries, is even more so.
As for Zelensky's lie about allegedly blocking around 100 foreign ships in Ukrainian ports, the explanation is.
Ukrainian authorities are currently forcibly detaining 68 vessels belonging to Turkey, China, Switzerland, Greece, Malta Panama, Marshall Islands, Sierra Leone, Comoros, Belize, Liberia, Cayman Islands, Denmark, Syria in Chernomorsk, Odessa and Nikolaev ports.
At the same time, the Russian Federation daily from 08:00 to 19:00 Moscow time opens a safe corridor of 80 nautical miles wide for these vessels to leave the territorial waters of Ukraine in the south-western direction.
However, the crews of the ships in question told us in radio conversations that any departure of a foreign vessel from Ukrainian ports was forbidden by the Ukrainian authorities under threat of immediate sinking.
3. Military operation continues
Units of the Lugansk People's Republic, continuing their offensive, blockaded the northern outskirts of Kremennaya and the eastern outskirts of Metelkino. During the night, up to 40 Ukrainian nationalists of 57th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade, 1 artillery battery, 2 IFVs and 4 vehicles of various purposes were destroyed.
High-precision air-based weapons destroyed 6 Ukrainian military facilities, including five ammunition and missile-artillery weapons depots in Boguslavskoe, Krestishe, Reznikov, Velikaya Novoselka and 1 fuel depot.
Air defence means of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down 1 Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter near Lyubimovka and 8 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Lisichansk, Donetsk, Chernigov, Korosun and Novomikhailovskoe, including 1 Bayraktar TB-2 near Vakhovka.
Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 52 military assets of Ukraine.
Among them: 3 command posts, 3 multiple launch rocket systems, Buk-M1 anti-aircraft complex, illumination and guidance radar of S-300 anti-aircraft missile system, as well as 10 areas of military equipment concentration and 16 AFU strong points.
In total, from February 24th, 2022, 124 aircraft and 81 helicopters, 353 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,839 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 202 multiple launch rocket systems, 773 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,711 special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
Written by Vladimir P. Kozin
