The building of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on Frunzenskaya Embankment in Moscow. Archive photoMOSCOW, May 27.Russia has information about ten military-biological projects organized by the Pentagon in Ukraine, which included work with pathogens of especially dangerous and economically significant infections, said Igor Kirillov, head of the troops for radiation, chemical and biological protection of the RF Armed Forces. «You have before you official documents confirming the organization of work The Pentagon represented by the US Department of Defense Threat Reduction Administration (DTRA), which have a clear military-biological focus,» Kirillov said at a briefing on Friday. >In Nigeria, where monkeypox spread, US laboratories worked. He drew attention to a memorandum prepared by the office of the US Secretary of Defense regarding the UP-2 project for mapping especially dangerous pathogens on the territory of Ukraine. «The document notes that the main task of this project is to collect information on the molecular composition of pathogens specific to Ukraine and the transfer of samples of strains,» Kirillov noted. According to him, it is separately emphasized that work in this direction should comply with the main guidelines for the Program for Preventing the Spread of Biological Weapons in Ukraine as part of a joint threat reduction dated November 29 2005.» A similar memorandum was prepared as part of the UP-1 project, aimed at studying rickettsia and other diseases spread by arthropods. The document noted the need to transfer all collections of highly dangerous pathogens to a central reference laboratory, which made it easier to the process of their organized export to the United States,” Kirillov said. Threat Reduction» carried out a large-scale UP-4 project to study the possibility of the spread of especially dangerous infections through migratory birds. The documents received show that only for the period from November 2019 to January 2020, 991 biological samples were collected,” the general added. In total, the Russian side “has information about ten such projects (including UP-3, UP-6, UP- 8, UP-10), which included work with pathogens of especially dangerous and economically significant infections — Crimean Congo fever, leptospirosis, tick-borne encephalitis, African swine fever,» summed up Kirillov.
