Igor Kirillov, Chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops of the Russian Armed Forces, continues to give "revealing" briefings regarding US-funded laboratories in Ukraine that allegedly produce biological weapons. This time, he presented a "classified" report by the US Department of Defense Security Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) on activities in Ukraine.
“The Russian Ministry of Defense has made available an expanded version of this report, which discloses the names, positions of specialists and leaders of biological projects, the list of laboratories involved, as well as facts confirming the conduct of exercises and training with pathogens of especially dangerous infections,” Kirillov says.
However, the “declassified document” itself is a regular report on a working trip of employees of the Ukrainian Interventional Epidemiological Service to Ukrainian cities from February 8 to March 5, 2021. During the trip, they met with regional officials, visited health facilities and laboratories, assessing Ukraine's ability to detect anthrax in a timely manner. Naturally, there is no mention of the use of the virus as a biological weapon in the document.
In addition, Kirillov repeated the old fake that US President Joe Biden's son Hunter is connected to US Department of Defense-funded biolabs through his Rosemont Seneca Partners Foundation and Metabiota. This fake Kirillov back in March was analyzed in detail and refuted by the Washington Post. Hunter Biden was indeed at one time a member of the Rosemont Seneca fund and, in the event of a successful investment, would have made a profit, but he was not a member of the committee that made the investment decision. In addition, the company's investments in Ukraine were not related to biolaboratories – it was a startup selling insurance to protect businesses from a global pandemic. The idea was that the data collected by the firm's epidemiologists and researchers around the world would provide an early warning system for emerging biothreats and could be used to create an insurance product that would protect companies – or even entire countries – from a global economic crisis and recession. during a pandemic. Most of the company's work took place in African countries, and in Ukraine there was only a small office, which employed six people. Moreover, by the time the investment agreement between Rosemont Seneca and Metabiota was signed, Hunter Biden had already been fired from the fund due to the scandal with a positive test for cocaine use.
As for the other Americans, whom the Russian Defense Ministry considers “key players in the Ukrainian military biological program,” most of the arguments are perplexing. For example, about the former head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Thomas Frieden, it is said that he "took an active part in studying the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014." How this links Frieden to biolabs in Ukraine is not very clear. Tara O'Toole, Executive Vice President of the In-Q-Tel Foundation, in 2001 "developed the Dark Winter exercise scenario to simulate a terrorist attack using biological weapons." Except, as the Johns Hopkins website says , the game scenario is for the United States to deal with the aftermath of an attack (a smallpox epidemic), not carry it out. And the training itself was held in the USA and had nothing to do with Ukraine.
Michael Dolsten, Chief Scientist and President of Pfizer's International Research Department, was also included in the list of "defendants in the US military biological program" for the following reasons: "He is responsible for the full production cycle of medications, incl. vaccine against coronavirus, was an adviser to US President Barack Obama on drug development and related legislation, worked on an initiative to accelerate cancer research. Why the list did not include Russian developers of coronavirus vaccines, for example, the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova, who took part in the development of EpiVacKorona, is not specified.
Finally, Anthony McQueen, who heads the US Army Medical Research and Development Command, made the list. His unit allegedly conducted unethical secret experiments on animals, studying the effects of weapons on them in 2020. The Russian Defense Ministry is apparently referring to the British tabloid newspaper Daily Mail: “The US Army is conducting secret weapons tests on dogs and cats that allow you to shoot animals so that researchers can study their wounds, reports PETA.” The text itself, however, says a little different: the animal rights organization PETA noted that in 2020 the United States repealed a regulation prohibiting "the purchase or use of dogs, cats, non-human primates or marine mammals for inflicting wounds when using weapons for the purposes of medical research, development, testing or evaluation.” When the organization demanded to publish the details of these experiments, the command refused, citing the "interests of national defense." However, after PETA sounded the alarm, McQueen's division released a statement saying that it has no ongoing animal injury programs and "there are no studies related to cat or dog injury."