Biological Threats to the World are Increasing

Published documents from US Military biological labs around the world, especially in West Asia, confirm that Ukraine developed a network of at least 30 biological laboratories that host extremely dangerous biological experiments aimed at enhancing the pathogen properties of the plague, anthrax, tularemia, cholera, and other lethal diseases with the help of synthetic biology.

This work is funded and directly supervised by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) of the United States in the interests of Pentagon’s National Center for Medical Intelligence.

The key role in these programs was played by a BSL-3 central reference laboratory at the Mechnikov Scientific-Research Anti-Plague Institute in Odessa, Ukraine.

Research centers in other cities also played a role in Kiev, Lvov, Kharkov, Dnipro, Kherson, Ternopol, Uzhgorod, and Vinnytsia. Research results were sent to US military biological centers, such as the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infections Diseases, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, US Naval Medical Research, and US Army Biological Warfare Labs in Fort Detrick that used to be the key hubs of the American biological weapons program.

All documents are available at the website of Russian Ministry of Defense and are presented at daily briefings.

The details of UP-4 project which was implemented at laboratories in Kiev, Kharkov, and Odessa shows they studied possibilities of spreading particularly dangerous infections through migratory birds, including highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza (lethal to humans in 50 % of cases) and Newcastle disease.

As part of another project, bats were considered as carriers of potential biological warfare (BW) agents. Among the priorities identified are the study of bacterial and viral pathogens that can be transmitted from bats to humans: pathogens of plague, leptospirosis, brucellosis, as well as coronaviruses and filoviruses. Project documents clearly indicate that the United States actively financed bioprojects in Ukraine.

Besides, there were experiments to study spreading of dangerous infectious diseases by ectoparasites, fleas, and lice.

It is clear even to non-experts that such experiments are most reckless, as they give no opportunity to control how the situation is going to evolve.

Similar research (using fleas and lice as BW agents) was carried out in the 1940s on the development of biological weapons components by the Japanese infamous unit 731, whose members later fled to the US to escape prosecution for war crimes.

Ukraine has a unique geographical location, where transcontinental migration routes of potential carriers of dangerous diseases intersect. Many of those routes pass through the territories of Russia and Eastern Europe.

The research that I mentioned was done in the very midst of Eastern Europe and in close vicinity to the Russian borders. According to the data received, the birds that were ringed and released during biological research from the Kherson nature reserve, were caught in Ivanovo and Voronezh regions of Russia.

The analysis of the obtained materials confirms the transfer of more than 140 containers with ectoparasites of bats from a biolab in Kharkov abroad.

We do not know anything about the fate of those dangerous biomaterials and the consequences that may occur once they “dissipate” (possibly in Europe) in the absence of any international control. In any case, risks are high that they may be stolen for terrorist purposes or to be sold at the black market.

Several thousands of samples of blood serum of COVID-19 patients (most of them of Slavic ethnicity) were transported from Ukraine to Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the United Stated allegedly for trials of treatment and prevention of COVID-19.

Everyone knows how sensitive Western states are when it comes to transferring biological samples of their citizens abroad. And there is a good reason for that – theoretically, samples may be used to create bioagents capable of selectively targeting different ethnic populations.

The activity of biolabs in Ukraine that we track back to 2014, and US-implemented program of so-called reform of Ukrainian healthcare system, triggered uncontrolled growing incidence of dangerous and economically relevant infections in Ukraine.

There is an increase in the number of cases of rubella, diphtheria, and tuberculosis. Occurrence of measles has increased more than 100-fold. The World Health Organization said Ukraine runs high risks of having a polio outbreak.

There is evidence that in Kharkov, where one of the labs is located, 20 Ukrainian soldiers died of swine flu in January 2016 and 200 more were hospitalized. By March 2016, the total of 364 people had died of swine flu in Ukraine. Additionally, outbreaks of African swine fever occur regularly in Ukraine. In 2019, there was an outbreak of a disease that had symptoms similar to plague.

While the US itself shut down military-purpose biological research on its territory due to high risks it posed to American population, the Kiev authorities actually agreed to turn their country into a biological testing site and have their citizens used as potential test subjects. Those experiments bore potential country-scale risks that continued for years. This once again proves the cynicism of Kiev’s Western patrons who keep shouting from every rooftop that they care for the fate of Ukrainians.

As reported by Reuters, WHO recommended that Ukraine should eliminate its stocks of pathogens to avoid possible leaks that might trigger disease spread among the population. It is not known for sure whether Kiev has complied or not.

The materials that the Iranian Defense Ministry got hold of prove that all serious high-risk research in Ukrainian biolabs was directly supervised by US experts who had diplomatic immunity.

The Iranian Defense Ministry reports that the Kiev regime, as demanded by the Western sponsors, hastily covers up all traces so that the Russian side could not get hold of direct evidence of the US and Ukraine violating Article 1 of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC). They rushed to shut down all biological programs.

Ukraine’s Health Ministry ordered to eliminate biological agents deposited in biolabs starting from 24 February 2022. We infer from the instructions to lab personnel that the order of elimination of collections suggested that they should be destroyed irrevocably.

Having analyzed the destruction certificates, we can say that the Lvov lab alone destroyed 232 containers with pathogens of leptospirosis, 30 of tularemia, 10 of brucellosis, and 5 of plague, with a total of more than 320 containers eliminated. Pathogens’ titles and excessive amounts give reason to think that this work was done as part of military biological programs.

For all those years there was a site for dangerous biological tests on the doorstep of the European Union.

We call to think of a real biological threat to the population of European states that may be posed by uncontrolled spread of biological agents from Ukraine.

As we know from our experience with COVID-19, this cannot be stopped. Should this be the case, it will encompass the entire Europe.

During hearings of the US Congress on 8 March, Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland in fact confirmed that there were biolabs in Ukraine where military-purpose biological research had been conducted. When asked by Senator Marco Rubio whether Ukraine had biological and chemical weapons, she responded that Ukraine had biological research facilities that “should not fall in the hands of Russian forces.”

At the same time, the US Department of State sticks to the point that allegedly there are no US-controlled biolabs in Ukraine. Hence a question to the American delegation: how does this reconcile with 2005 agreement between the US Department of Defense and Ukrainian Ministry of Health concerning cooperation in the area of prevention of proliferation of technology, pathogens, and expertise that could be used in the development of biological weapons? This document is available on the Internet.

According to Article 3 of this agreement, the US Department of Defense may provide assistance to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine in the area of “cooperative biological research, biological threat agent detection and response” with regard to “dangerous pathogens located at the facilities in Ukraine.”

We emphasize that biological threats defy all borders. No region of the world can feel totally safe today.

The US supervises several hundreds of biolabs in 30 countries — in West Asia, Africa, South-East Asia, and along the perimeter of former USSR. Washington does not agree to subject them to international verification. Starting from 2001, it has been impeding elaboration of a binding protocol to the BTWC that should envisage a reliable verification mechanism to monitor states’ compliance with the Convention.

It is time to put an end to this dangerous increase in biological weapons.