US Army Medical Institute for Infectious Diseases. File photoMOSCOW, April 20The United States, as part of its military biological program in Ukraine, was interested, among other things, in the search for strains of dangerous bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics, and which could be used for biological attacks, a military microbiologist, chief specialist of the 27th scientific center of the Ministry of Defense, a colonel in Mikhail Supotnitsky, retired. The Russian special military operation in Ukraine stopped the activities of five Kiev biological laboratories, in which, by order of the Pentagon, work was carried out with pathogens of anthrax, tularemia, brucellosis, cholera, leptospirosis, African swine fever, said at the end of March the head of the radiation, chemical and Biological Defense of the Armed Forces of Russia, Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov. Part of the collection ended up in the United States, the remaining strains were urgently destroyed in accordance with the order of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine dated February 24, he said.
"Why does the US need a collection? Because in these collections there are strains that are resistant to antibiotics,» said Supotnitsky.
He recalled that there are dangerous pathogens that are resistant to certain antibiotics, which have become the most viable as a result of natural selection, and therefore attractive with in terms of use for biological attacks.The special operation revealed 30 US biolaboratories in Ukraine»The American strain of the causative agent of anthrax» Ames «, which the terrorists used in the fall of 2001 for a terrorist attack in the United States, is a natural strain, it is resistant to the so-called unmodified third-generation penicillins. And patients whom doctors treated with penicillins according to the standard procedure, they eventually died,» Supotnitsky explained. When the doctors found out which strain they encountered and began to use the antibiotic ciprofloxacin, the effectiveness of this treatment regimen increased, the agency's interlocutor noted.
"And in Madagascar, not so long ago, they found a strain of the causative agent of pneumonic plague, which is resistant to streptomycin. And streptomycin is the main treatment for plague", the expert concluded.
According to General Kirillov, a network of more than 30 biological laboratories was formed on the territory of Ukraine, which worked in the interests of the Pentagon, and Washington spent more than $200 million on them. Everything for the continuation of the US military biological program has already been removed from Ukraine after the start of the Russian special operation, he said. From the data released by the Department of Defense, the investment fund of US President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden participated in the financing of the Pentagon's military biological program in Ukraine. The heads of departments and employees of the US military department, as well as its main contractor companies, were involved in the creation of biological weapons components, these enterprises were directly connected with the son of Joe Biden. The Ministry of Defense also announced the names of Western curators of Ukrainian biological laboratories. In Russia, a parliamentary commission has been created to investigate the activities of biological laboratories on the territory of Ukraine, as a result of its work, a report is expected to the president, the government of Russia and international organizations.
US activity to create biological laboratories is unacceptable, Medvedev said