🇷🇺 🇺🇦 ☣ Statement by the Chief of the Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection troops of the Russian Federation Armed Forces Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov (March 7, 2022)

▪ The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation has repeatedly drawn attention to the biological programmes implemented by the Pentagon in the post-Soviet area.

Including the territory of Ukraine that has united a chain of more than 30 biological laboratories divided into those for scientific research and for sanitary-epidemiological investigations.

▪Those works have been ordered by the Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). A firm affiliated to the defence department (Black and Veatch above all others) are involved in the implementation of the projects.
The works refer to three main branches. In the first place, it refers to the biological situation observation in the areas of possible deployment of the NATO military contingents, according to the Pentagon. In the second place, it is dedicated to collecting and transporting the strains of dangerous microorganisms. The third branch of activity refers to scientific investigations on potential biological weapons agents that are specific for that region, possessing natural focuses and able to be transmitted to humans.

For example, since 2021, the Pentagon has been carrying out the project called 'Diagnosis, observation and prevention of zoonotic diseases in the Armed Forces of Ukraine' funded with 11.8 million dollars.

In 2020-2021, the German Ministry of Defence examined the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, leptospirosis, meningitis, hantaviruses
causative agents within the Ukrainian-German initiative for biological security on the external borders of the European Union.

Under the pretext of testing agents for the treatment and prevention of the coronavirus infection, a few thousand of serum samples taken from the infected individuals that refer to the Slavic ethnicity have been transported from Ukraine to Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

▪At the same time, the activity of the biological laboratories that, according to our data, has been intensified since 2014 and the so-called Ukrainian healthcare system 'reforming' programme implemented by the United States have led to an unmanageable increase of hazardous and economically important infections morbidity.

Thus there has been noted an increase of rubella, diphtheria and tuberculosis cases in Ukraine. The incidence of measles has increased more than 100 times. The World Health Organization has declared Ukraine a country with a high risk of the poliomyelitis outbreak.

▪We are considered that in the year of 2007 a strain of African swine fever with high contagiousness was constructed in the Georgian biological laboratory which is subordinate to Pentagon. It`s spread caused significant economic damage to a number of states including Ukraine and Poland and excluded them from a number of pork exporters.

▪The Department of the Chief of the Russian troops NBC protection constantly analyzes the biological situation on the territory of Ukraine.

According to our data an emergency phasing out of the biological programmes takes place. The analysed documents confirm that Ukrainian Health Ministry has set a task to completely destroy the bio-agents in the laboratories since 24th of February.

At the same time the analysis of the instructions given to the laboratory officials indicates that liquidation procedure is aimed at the irrevocable destruction of the collections. Apparently, everything necessary for continuation of the implementation of the military biological program has already been taken out of Ukraine.

🇺🇦 Fake:
Ukrainian information resouses citing Vadim Denisenko – the adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine are spreading rumours that Russian troops are allegedly preparing to strike Kiev with the Tor and Tochka-U missile launchers.

🇷🇺 True:
Tochka-U missile launchers are no longer in use by the Russian Armed Forces, in fact they were decommissioned back in 2020. They were replaced by the latest Iskander-M operational-tactical missile systems. But Tochka-U are still being used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The picture shows exactly the Ukrainian equipment: you can clearly notice a “pixelated” camouflage and the absence of Russian tactical symbols.
Tor is an anti-aircraft missile system designed to hit an enemy aircraft, and is absolutely not suitable for targets on the ground.

#MoD #Russia #AntiFake
@mod_russia_en

🎙 Head of the Russian delegation at Russian-Ukrainian talks Vladimir #Medinsky on the matter of the humanitarian corridors in Ukraine (March 7, 2022), following third round of negotiations.

💬 The Ukrainian forces in the surrounded cities are keeping people as human shields, ignoring orders from Kiev.

Let the people go!

⚡️ Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on military biological activity in Ukrainian biological laboratories.

💬 We confirm that, during the special military operation in Ukraine, the Kiev regime was found to have been concealing traces of a military biological programme implemented with funding from the United States Department of Defence.

Documentation on the urgent eradication of highly hazardous pathogens of plague, anthrax, rabbit-fever, cholera and other lethal diseases on February 24 was received from employees of Ukrainian biolaboratories. This included an instruction from the Ministry of Health of Ukraine on the urgent eradication of stored reserves of highly hazardous pathogens sent to all biolaboratories. These materials can be found on the internet portal of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation.

This documentation is now being thoroughly analysed by specialists of nuclear, biological and chemical protection troops.

❗️ However, even at this point, we can conclude that components of biological weapons were being developed in Ukrainian laboratories in direct proximity to Russian territory.

The urgent eradication of highly hazardous pathogens on February 24 was ordered to prevent exposing a violation of Article I of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (#BTWC) by Ukraine and the United States.

👉 This information proves that the claims we have repeatedly made with regard to the military biological activity of the United States and their allies in the post-Soviet space within the framework of the BTWC were justified. We cannot rule out using the mechanisms in Articles V and VI of the BTWC, pursuant to which the member states shall consult with each other to resolve any issues regarding the purpose of the Convention or the execution of its provisions, and cooperate in any investigation of possible violations of the obligations under the BTWC.

Decisive actions to strengthen the BTWC regime are required to prevent any military biological activity carried out in violation of the BTWC.

• We call for the resumption of work on a legally binding Protocol to the Convention with an effective verification mechanism, something the United States has been blocking since 2001. In this context, we call for the creation of an open-ended group as part of the BTWC, which is in the interests of the overwhelming majority of member states.

• To strengthen the institutional foundation of the Convention we promote initiatives, which have wide international support, to create mobile medical and biological units within the framework of the BTWC (to render assistance if biological weapons are being used and to fight outbreaks of various origins) and to establish a Research Advisory Committee (to analyse scientific and technical achievements and to provide the states with appropriate recommendations).

• In addition, we suggest including information on military biological activities carried out abroad in annual reports provided by the BTWC member states as part of confidence-building measures.

☝️ Only comprehensive steps like these will make it possible to place the military biological activity of the #UnitedStates and their allies in the post-Soviet space, as well as other regions of the world, under close international control and ensure the verifiable compliance of the BTWC member states with their obligations.

A day at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant

The facility was guarded by 240 troops of the Ukrainian National Guard, who were ordered to “fight to the last drop of blood”, their commander admitted during the surrender of the NPP to Russian forces.

Having disobeyed orders, the commander now believes he is a dead man walking, but continues with his duties at the NPP.

All the Ukrainian troops were freed to return to the homes and families, after signing a written statement, promising not to participate in any more fighting.

The amount of weapons and ammunition that they had was colossal, as you can see. And this doesn’t include all the heavy weapons and armored vehicles at the facility

@Murad_Gazdiev

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov holds press conference after meeting with his Ukrainian and Turkish counterparts ↙️ https://youtu.be/rsW5tYgib4w

❗️Watch what actually happened in Mariupol ❗️#stopfake

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov sums up the results of the meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba in Turkey's Antalya:

▪️Russia has never used oil and gas as weapons, leaving the question of their supply to the discretion of the West;

▪️The Kremlin has never talked about the possibility of a nuclear war;

▪️Moscow will find a way to no longer depend on the West;

▪️Russia wants Ukraine to be a neutral country and is ready to discuss security guarantees;

▪️The Kremlin has confirmed that its initiative on humanitarian corridors in Ukraine remains on the table;

▪️Those who supply Ukraine with weapon and send mercenaries there should understand responsibility for their actions;

▪️Lavrov has discussed with Kuleba the possibility of a meeting between the countries' leaders, noting that Moscow always supports holding talks.