Russian Defence Ministry on the implementation of the US military and biological programmes in Ukraine
Reminder: during the special military operation, it became known that the P
entagon's bioweapons programmes in Ukraine were being carried out
in violation of Articles 1 and 4 of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).
• An examination of papers discovered in Ukrainian biolaboratories provides evidence that
biological weapons components were being produced in close proximity to Russian borders.
• This is confirmed by the work contracts, approved registration cards, reporting documents of the Pentagon’s contractors:
Black & Veatch, Metabiota, CH2M-HILL.
• The nomenclature of pathogens that were studied in the framework of
UP and TAP Ukrainian projects had nothing to do with the problems relevant to public health in Ukraine. Moreover, the main accent was made on the study of naturally focal and especially dangerous infections, which are regarded as potential biological weapons agents. For example, the objective of the
TAP-2 project was to study actinobacillus mallei, cases of which have never been recorded in Ukraine.
•The US DoD-controlled
testing of infectious disease agents and poisonous chemicals on Ukrainian military
personnel and the mentally ill, two of the most vulnerable groups of population, is of special concern.
• We previously referenced a ruling of the Centre for Public Health of Ukraine's ethics committee, dated 12 June 2019, for conducting research with unknown hazards to participants' lives and health. Despite the fact that the research programme only includes standard blood sampling, the document requires reporting
‘...minor incidents involving volunteers to the US bioethics committee within 72 hours of the incident, and serious incidents, including subject death, within 24 hours of the incident’.
Despite their evident military-biological focus, the US and Ukraine remain deliberately discreet regarding collaborative BWC reporting actions.
