The US government has turned the US into the Number One War Criminal Country
China has called on the United States to clarify the extent of its military biological activities across the planet.
“We once again urge the US side to fully clarify its biological militariation activities at home and abroad,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told reporters in a briefing Tuesday.
The diplomat suggested that the information publicised by the Russian Defence Ministry Monday about US military biological activities in Ukraine could be just the “tip of the iceberg.”
“The
US Department of Defense controls 336 biolabs across 30 countries under
the pretext of joint work to reduce biosecurity risks and strengthening
global health. You heard right – 336,” Zhao said.
Washington has also
unilaterally rejected international inspections of these facilities,
including the Maryland-based Fort Detrick biolab, the spokesman added.
“What are America’s real intentions? What exactly were they doing?” the spokesman asked.
“For
the sake of the health of the people of Ukraine, neighbouring regions
and beyond, we call on relevant parties to ensure the safety of these
laboratories. The United States, as the party with the most information
about these facilities, should disclose the relevant data as soon as
possible, including about the viruses held there and the nature of
research into them,” Zhao stressed.
MoD's Revelations
Russia’s
Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops revealed Monday the
existence of a network of over 30 biological laboratories across Ukraine
being run by the US military, with some these facilities feared to have
engaged in the production of chemical weapons.
In
a briefing, NBC Troops commander Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov said that the
United States spent over $200 million on the programme, which is divided
into monitoring, research and sanitary-epidemiological work, including
the study of potential biological weapons agents with natural foci that
can be transmitted to human beings. The work has reportedly taken place
under the purview of the Pentagon’s Defence Threat Reduction Agency,
with private contractor Black & Veatch tasked with helping to
implement projects.
7 March, 13:50 GMT
Citing
concrete examples, Kirillov reported on the existence of labs in the
western Ukrainian city of Lviv working on infectious agents including
plague, anthrax and brucellosis, and labs in the eastern cities of
Kharkov and Poltava working with diphtheria, salmonellosis and
dysentery. Between 2020 and 2021, he said, the Pentagon spent $11.8
million on a project known as “Diagnostics, Surveillance and Prevention
of Zoonotic Diseases in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.” During the same
period, the German Defence Ministry was said to have conducted research
into Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic disease pathogens, leptospirosis,
meningitis, and hantaviruses in Ukraine within the framework of a
German-sponsored initiative to ‘ensure the biological security’ of
countries bordering the European Union.
Additionally,
the commander said that thousands of serum samples primarily of “Slavic
ethnicity” patients had been sent from Ukrainian labs to the Walter
Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Maryland under the
pretext of testing for COVID-19 treatment methods.
On Sunday, the Russian military publicised documents
obtained from biolabs from Poltava and Kharkov of instructions by
Ukrainian Health Minister Viktor Liashko instructing lab workers to
destroy a broad range of pathogens including anthrax, plague, tularemia,
cholera and other deadly diseases.
US Biolabs in Ukraine
The
United States has been engaged in the construction, modernisation,
operation and funding of biolabs on Ukrainian territory since at least
2005. In 2020, Ukrainian opposition lawmakers asked the government to
conduct a probe into these facilities, citing a series of inexplicable
outbreaks of dangerous diseases between 2009 and 2017. Viktor
Medvedchuk, one of the lawmakers demanding the probe, alleged at the
time that the creation of a Level 3 lab storing human pathogens may have
been an indication of US plans for experimentation on people. The US
dismissed these allegations, and Medvedchuk was put under house arrest
in 2021, supposedly over an unrelated matter, and accused of “high
treason.” The lawmaker reportedly escaped confinement after the start of
the Russian military operation in Ukraine in late February.
6 September 2021, 13:54 GMT
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