Go to media bankA sign on the lab door. File photoMOSCOW, Sep 20The United States not only did not seek to improve the sanitary and biological situation in Ukraine, but also purposefully turned Ukrainians into «guinea pigs» for testing exotic pathogens of dangerous diseases as part of the Pentagon's military biological program, a microbiologist, a former member of the commission on biological and chemical weapons, told RIA Novosti UN Igor Nikulin. At the September meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons in Geneva, Kiev and Washington did not provide evidence that their cooperation helped improve the sanitary and epidemiological situation in Ukraine, which has been steadily deteriorating over the past 15 years, said the day before Chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov. catastrophically e,” Nikulin said. “One of the first decisions of the “Maidan” authorities in Ukraine was the abolition of sanitary and epidemiological supervision. And its functions were actually taken over by the Pentagon. But we see how the US military «takes care» of the Ukrainians, since they conducted experiments on military personnel, on patients in psychiatric hospitals, and on children. That is, the Americans in Ukraine did what is forbidden,» the expert added. Nikulin recalled that Ukrainian prisoners of war were found to have antibodies to pathogens of dangerous diseases that were never characteristic of Ukraine. «This is both Crimean-Congo fever and West Nile fever , and other exotic diseases — for example, Zika fever,» the agency's interlocutor listed. «In fact, the United States tested its latest military biological developments on specific genetic material — on living people, on animals, on plants. And the Ukrainians were just guinea pigs for them,” Nikulin said. forms of tuberculosis resistant to many antibiotics have become widespread. U.S. and Ukraine articles I and IV of the Convention. The Russian Ministry of Defense analyzed the materials of the speeches of the representatives of the United States and Ukraine, the working documents of the participating states, joint statements and the final document of the meeting, General Kirillov said the day before. Russia asked more than 20 questions regarding the illegal activities of Kyiv and Washington in within the BTWC, he noted. Vityazeva: US biolab work evokes memories of the Third Reich