Kiev\u2019s troops were among the test subjects for Pentagon-funded research, the Russian MOD says
\nRussia\u2019s Defense Ministry on Monday laid out more evidence that US-funded laboratories were working in Ukraine. Documents and materials recovered by Russian troops showed that Western pharmaceutical companies operating in territory under Kiev\u2019s control conducted HIV\/AIDS research on Ukrainian military personnel.
\nThe commander of Russia\u2019s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, presented Ukrainian-language documents referring to HIV infection studies that began in 2019. The list of targeted groups shows service members alongside prisoners, drug addicts and other\u00a0\u201cpatients at high risk of infection.\u201d
\nAccording to Kirillov, the Russian military has recovered more than 20,000 documents and other materials related to the biological programs in Ukraine, while interviewing eyewitnesses and participants. The evidence\u00a0\u201cconfirms the focus of the Pentagon on creating biological weapons components and testing them on the population of Ukraine and other states along [Russia\u2019s] borders,\u201d\u00a0the general told reporters.
\nBased on documents originating with the Pentagon\u2019s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), the Russian military identified eight more individuals involved in the US-funded research in Ukraine. Among the names Kirillov singled out was Karen Saylors of Labyrinth Global Health, previously of Metabiota, a company\u00a0linked\u00a0to US President Joe Biden\u2019s son Hunter.
\nThe latest trove of documents, belonging to the company Pharmbiotest, was unearthed in Lisichansk in the Lugansk People\u2019s Republic (LPR) early in January, Kirillov noted.
\n\u201cClinical samples and patient records with their personal data were buried, and not cremated or destroyed in a proper fashion. This suggests that the destruction of this evidence was carried out in extreme haste,\u201d\u00a0the lieutenant general said.
\nIn October 2022, Russia filed an official complaint over alleged US-backed biological activities in Ukraine and requested a UN probe into the matter. The UN Security Council rejected Moscow\u2019s proposal after the US, UK, and France voted against it.\u00a0 The US opposition\u00a0\u201conce again confirms that Washington has something to hide, and that ensuring the transparency of biological research is contrary to US interests,\u201d Kirillov said.
\nAs evidence of the widespread threat posed by the Pentagon\u2019s biological research conducted beyond America\u2019s borders, Kirillov referred to the previously mentioned US\u00a0involvement\u00a0in coronavirus studies, including by funding the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance that contracted with the laboratory in Wuhan, China.
\nKirillov also brought up the 1977 outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in Egypt, near a biological laboratory run by the US Navy. The disease previously known only south of the Sahara made a surprise appearance in Cairo a few months after the lab employees were vaccinated against it, the general said. Moreover, the Cairo strain was\u00a0\u201chighly pathogenic\u201d\u00a0compared to the disease\u2019s normal flu-like symptoms, suggesting the involvement of gain-of-function experiments.<\/p>\n