The US Embassy in Ukraine acknowledged that there are biological laboratories in Ukraine that are under the control of the Pentagon. The statement of diplomats came after an open letter from people’s deputies about the threats posed by these research centers to Ukrainians. Given what we have gone through in the past 2 years with the Covid-19 pandemic, this story is crazy. The US media has murky at best in reporting. The press out of Eastern Europe has done more digging. Dilyana Gaytandzhieva has been digging.
On March 8, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland commented on a recent Russian Ministry of Defense announcement it had obtained documents proving the existence of biological weapons programs in laboratories financed by the United States in Ukraine.
Sen. Marco Rubio: Does Ukraine have chemical or biological weapons?
Victoria Nuland: Ukraine has biological research facilities which, in fact, we’re now quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of, so we are working with the Ukrainians on how we can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach.
Sen. Marco Rubio: I’m sure you’re aware that the Russian propaganda groups are already putting out there all kinds of information about how they have uncovered a plot by the Ukrainians to unleash biological weapons in the country, and with NATO’s coordination. If there is a biological or chemical weapon incident or attack inside Ukraine, is there any doubt in your mind that 100% it would be the Russians behind it?
Victoria Nuland: There is no doubt in my mind, senator. And in fact, it is a classic Russian technique to blame the other guy for what they are planning to do themselves.
However, the Americans deny the threats and say that scientific work is being carried out for exclusively peaceful purposes. And talk of threats is written off as “Russian disinformation”.
The Ukrainian “Strana” news agency reported this story.
What the deputies of the Rada declared:
People’s deputies from “Opposition Platform – For Life” Viktor Medvedchuk and Renat Kuzmin wrote requests to four leaders of the country: President Zelensky, Prime Minister Shmygal, Head of the SBU Bakanov, and Minister of Healthcare Stepanov.
In an appeal with reference to Serbian and Bulgarian media, it is reported that the US has more than 400 bacteriological laboratories around the world, including at least 15 in Ukraine.
There are exclusively American ones, and they are financed at the expense of the US Department of Defence. The laboratories are located in Odessa, Vinnytsia, Uzhgorod, Lvov (three), Kiev (three), Kherson, Ternopol, and near Crimea and Lugansk.
At that time, cooperation agreements were signed between the US Department of Defence and the Ministry of Healthcare of Ukraine for the prevention of proliferation technologies (growth of body tissue by cell division), pathogens, and expertise that can be used for the development of biological weapons.
“In fact, the work in the laboratories is carried out under the program of biological experiments. The budget is $2.1 billion and is funded by the US Defence Threat Reduction Agency. The Scientific and Technical Center in Ukraine, an international organisation funded by the American authorities and whose staff have diplomatic immunity, has also become involved in this activity. This organisation is engaged in financing projects for the creation of weapons of mass destruction,” wrote Medvedchuk and Kuzmin.
Further, the people’s deputies point out that after the launch of biolaboratories in Ukraine there were outbreaks of infectious diseases.
“So, in Ternopol in 2009 there was a virus that caused hemorrhagic pneumonia. Its victims were 450 Ukrainians. In 2011, there was an outbreak of cholera in Ukraine – 33 people died. Three years later, cholera was diagnosed already 800 citizens, another year later more than 100 cases of cholera were recorded in Nikolaev.”
People’s deputies also gave such examples. In January 2016, 20 soldiers died from an influenza-like virus in Kharkov, and more than 200 were hospitalised. Two months later, 364 deaths were recorded in Ukraine. “The reason is swine flu of the same strain of influenza that led to the global pandemic in 2009,” say Medvedchuk and Kuzmin.
They further point out that in 2017 in Nikolaev there was an outbreak of hepatitis A. In the summer of the same year there were similar hotbeds of infection in Zaporozhye and Odessa, and in the autumn – in Kharkov.
“In 2010-2012 [i.e., already under Yanukovych – ed] the Ukrainian government initiated checks to see if the laboratories comply with all safety measures. As a result, a number of gross disorders were identified that could lead to the leakage of strains of dangerous infections. The fact of extract ventilation facing the premises of a kindergarten was even recorded,” it is said in the appeal of Medvedchuk and Kuzmin.
Then people’s deputies write that in 2013 President Viktor Yanukovych abandoned such cooperation with the United States. But already in 2014 Petro Poroshenko continued it. “It is likely that Yanukovych lost power with the active participation of the US government precisely because of his refusal to cooperate with the Pentagon,” suggest the deputies from “Opposition Platform – For Life”.In conclusion, they point out, “It is possible that the secret and opaque activities of dangerous foreign objects on the territory of Ukraine have the task of testing the actions of viruses and bacteria on the bodies of Ukrainians”, and ask the leadership of Ukraine to understand this.
“It is known that the Geneva Convention of 1972 prohibits the production of bacteriological weapons, and for this reason, the US military does not produce them on US territory. And why, after all, there are so many excellent test sites in the world, such as Ukraine or Georgia, where you can produce and test any deadly viruses on the local population? It is enough only to create a military laboratory, give it a harmless name, such as “sanepidemstantsii Laboratory”, and assign its own supervisor to it…” – wrote Renat Kuzmin in Facebook in 2018.
He mentioned this topic in connection with the revelations of the Georgian ex-Minister of state security of Georgia Igor Giorgadze. In 2018, he said that the American Lugar Center, which is located in Tbilisi, tested on Georgian citizens the drug “Sovaldi” of the American firm “Gilead Science”. As a result, 73 volunteers were allegedly killed.
The US Embassy in Ukraine responded to Kuzmin’s appeal. The answer was not personally addressed to the people’s deputies, but to “Russian disinformation” in general.
The Embassy confirmed that biological programs in Ukraine are supervised by the US Department of Defence.
However, according to diplomats, the Pentagon works in Ukraine together with the Kiev government. The aim is “to ensure the secure storage of pathogens and threatening toxins in public institutions”, so that peaceful research and vaccine development can be carried out.
“We are also working with our Ukrainian partners to develop Ukraine’s ability to detect outbreaks caused by dangerous pathogens before they pose a threat to security or stability,” writes the US embassy in Ukraine.
Diplomats point out that their joint efforts help to ensure that dangerous agents do not fall into the wrong hands, and they list the specific Ukrainian agencies with which they interact:
- Ministry of Healthcare of Ukraine;
- State Food Safety and Consumer Protection Service of Ukraine;
- National Academy of Agrarian Sciences;
- Ministry of Defence of Ukraine.
The Americans tell us that the US Department of Defence’s biological threat reduction program is working with partner countries to combat the threat of outbreaks (intentional, accidental, or natural) of the most dangerous infectious diseases in the world. Among such partners there is Ukraine.
Concerning what is specifically done in laboratories, the diplomats write very evasively: “research partnerships” and “biological surveillance measures” are carried out. But some project descriptions include:
- Assessing the risks of viruses potentially carried by migratory birds flying over Ukraine;
- Monitoring the prevalence of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever and hantaviruses in Ukraine and the potential need for diagnosis in patients with suspected leptospirosis;
- Control the spread of African Swine Fever (ASF) in domestic pigs and wild boars in Ukraine; study the genome, conduct biological surveillance of ASF and regional risk assessment on the ground.
Then the Americans give some more interesting facts. Namely: that they modernised many laboratories of the Ministry of Healthcare of Ukraine and the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection. And just in 2019 started to build two laboratories in Kiev and Odessa.
Another part of the American-Ukrainian cooperation is the scientific mentoring letter. I.e., representatives of the United States teach Ukrainian colleagues to prepare publications in order to receive further grants.
In 2016, according to the US Embassy, Ukraine joined the American “disease surveillance in the East”. In addition to our country, the group of the European region includes Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Kazakhstan.
The Embassy also recalled that the Science and Technology Center in Ukraine (STCU), mentioned by Kuzmin in his request, is an intergovernmental organisation that was established as early as 1993. Now it includes Azerbaijan, the European Union, Georgia, Moldova, and Uzbekistan, in addition to Ukraine and the United States.
Americans note that such American-Ukrainian cooperation is necessary for “global peace and prosperity by reducing the risks associated with chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons.”
What else is known about US laboratories in Ukraine
There is little information about American biological laboratories in Ukraine on the Internet. At one time, Bulgarian and Serbian websites wrote about them – Renat Kuzmin referred to their data in his request.
Thus, Bulgarian journalists published a map of laboratories in Ukraine.
Journalists also published documents from which it follows that the Pentagon financed laboratories in Kharkov and Dnepropetrovsk (former regional Sanitary and Epidemiological Service). One of them received $1.5 million, and the other – $2 million from 2010 to 2012.
There is also an agreement between Ukraine and the United States dated August 29th 2005 in the archive of the State Department website. It concerns cooperation in preventing the spread of technologies, pathogens, and experiments that could be used in the manufacture of biological weapons.
The treaty was signed by the Pentagon and the Ministry of Healthcare of Ukraine, which at that time was headed by Nikolay Polishchuk. There’s a lot of interesting stuff in the document.
For example, it states that the Ministry of Healthcare should send to the US Department of Defence copies of dangerous pathogens that will appear as a result of research carried out in Ukrainian laboratories.
The parties also agreed to keep information about the results of their activities secret. And if they are considered secret by the Pentagon, they automatically become so in Ukraine.
Conversely, if Ukraine has classified any information, it should still be available to the Americans.
At the same time, the agreement requires to involve as few people as possible in this project – “minimise the number of people who have access to limited access information”.
Interesting information is also available about the International Scientific Center, which the Embassy spoke about and which oversees Ukrainian laboratories. According to the documents, its employees are protected by nothing less than diplomatic immunity.
I.e., it seems to be a very important structure in Ukraine for the United States.
However, the very fact that such agreements exist is not yet proof that dangerous pathogens are produced or tested on Ukrainians in laboratories.
The journalist Yury Tkachev wrote, “These laboratories study the behaviour of dangerous pathogens in certain regional conditions – taking into account climatic, demographic and other factors.
These studies can be called dual-use studies: on the one hand, they are really important in assessing the threats of the spread of a disease (the same Crimea-Congo fever) and in developing recommendations to combat it. On the other hand, the results of the study can be used in the development of bacteriological weapons for use in a particular region,” wrote Yury Tkachev on his Telegram channel.
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We are the country that had MKULTRA in our own country, so why wouldn’t we have other MKULTRA’s in countries we control?
A lot more human lab rats are available and accessible that way, and they have no representation in our NANCY’S HOUSE, the sacred temple of democracy in Washington, DC to stand up for their human rights, which actually do not exist.
Looks like ALL of our political leaders ( as should be known) have their greedy hands in this including Clinton , Trump ,Biden , Bush and probably as far back as Kennedy , Johnson . Our political system is as corrupt as the Mafia . Dont be fooled by political party . Theyre all corrupt .
When you publish stuff like this you need to tell us where you got it so we can check the source.
Notes: There are links to all the sources throughout the work, not to mention videos and twitter feeds embedded. Luckily people like Dilyana Gaytandzhieva are not lazy. If you really want the sources, don’t read the NY Times, WAPO, or any ‘papers of record’. Also, don’t believe any of the results you get from using traditional engines like Google. They are curated towards a particular narrative. That concludes today’s lesson.
Why don’t you do like the rest of us, and simply google the topic yourself to do your fact-checking.
Why is it up to the Cape Charles Mirror to do your homework for you?
Because independent thinking, logic, and curiosity have been removed from society.
And have you ever said a mouthful there and how pitiful it is, which is why people are so easily duped these days by hack politicians and liberal talk show hosts!
To use google, I have found that you have to know what questions to ask it, and how to frame those questions, and yes, that does require independent thought, or thought, period.
Of course, I am now old, and come from a time when young people were educated, not indoctrinated, and it was considered a responsibility of citizens in our Republic to be able to think and ask questions.
We seriously need those days back to counter all this “sacred democracy” horse**** we are being fed today by these Democrats down there in their “sacred temple of democracy” in Washington, D.C., a corrupt ****hole that ruined a perfectly good swamp and what a waste that was!
Institutional capture is what has happened. Bari Weiss has a great article on it, albeit related to law.
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-takeover-of-americas-legal-system
This is a reply to Paul – unknown why it didnt waterfall to his last comment.
I think that that can only happen, Pasquale, when people en masse willingly and willfully delegate their thinking to “somebody else,” because thinking is so very hard to do, and besides, there are some great specials at the mall, so time for shopping now, and maybe some thinking tomarrow or the next day, but that never happens because the mind is a muscle that when never exercised atrophies and becomes non-existent.
That is when civilizations historically have declined and died.
Look at the Romans for a great example of that now, although they did leave behind some spectacular ruins to mark their passage on earth.
Much is said to disparage Ayn Rand and “Atlas Shrugged,” but I think she had prescient vision and quite accurately described these times we are now entering into, with “Mr. Thompson” now in the white house in Washington, D.C.
A great article, and talk about “capture,” but it is not so much the “institutions” as the minds, if they can any longer be called that, of a generation that is not educated in what used to be called “critical thinking,” seeing things from as many different perspectives as possible, inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning, those sorts of things that went out the window when indoctrination replaced education in this country, so now, group think controls.
Sounds a lot like Nazi Germany, doesn’t it, or Stalin’s Soviet Union?
Do we now need some Gulags in this country?
Hillary Clinton, who calls Americans who loathe her a “BASKET OF DEPLORABLES,” would be the first to say yes, backed up by Joe Biden, who calls Americans who aren’t card-carrying Democrats “DREGS of SOCIETY!”
Now we have them here:
Issues & Studies 37, no. 2 (March/April 2001)
“Student Attacks Against Teachers: The Revolution of 1966”
Youqin Wang
The author investigated the so-called “Red August” of 1966, the start of large-scale violent persecution during China’s Cultural Revolution.
She interviewed hundreds of teachers and students from ninety-six schools and reviewed all available written materials.
This article provides a detailed description of how educators were insulted, tortured, and even killed by their students.
Mobilized as members of a new youth organization named “Red Guards,” the students attacked the educators for being “capitalist intellectuals.”
In those schools, twenty-seven educators were murdered; more committed suicide subsequent to torture.
Cruel oppression silenced resistance.
Stories about bloody campus persecutions were too politically sensitive following the Cultural Revolution, so have heretofore received scant attention in the historical narrative.
As the author shows, given the high regard China has traditionally held for education, the brutalizing of educators in China was an unprecedented act.
The objective of this article is to reveal the texture and significance of this underreported and underappreciated part of China’s history.
Causes and ramifications are discussed and analyzed.
I came here expecting to see posts supporting Putin’s far fetched conspiracy theories and was not disappointed. Did you also put Z stickers on your cars?
Note: How to prove you’re an idiot in one post.
Hi, Sorin!
You’ve been sorely missed, dude, with wild rumors swirling around CYBERSPACE (and we all know how that goes when some celebrity like Sorin suddenly goes missing with no explanation) that you had been kidnapped by Martians for experimentation, which actually could be true, you being a unique specimen, afterall, and we LOYAL AMERICANS who not only do not support Joe Biden, but also do not believe a word he or any of those mental donkeys who congregate around old Joe, and here I mean that Jake Sullivan, the goofy looking guy with the thin head who is now serving as a field marshall in Joe’s war with Russia using Ukraine as his proxy, the way LBJ used South Vietnam as his proxy in his personal war against Russia back when, killing some one million or more Vietnamese and a goodly 58,000 young Americans, many of them, the “Flower of Our Chivalry,” gone for good and never to return, and Blinken of no judgment worth a damn, thank you for taking the time to come back among us once again to enlighten us, entertain us, and to let us know that you know exactly what is inside of Putin’s head, you being from over that way, a lot closer to Putin than we are, anyway, so you would know these things where we wouldn’t, so it would have to be you from among us who would know conclusively (we don’t rule out that you are really CIA and so would be tapped right in tight to this stuff) that Putin’s conspiracy theories are far fetched as opposed to real and based on facts.
If you didn’t take the time to tell is that, I’m not at all sure we would have known, Putin being a master of intrigue and all that, so again, thanks from a grateful nation who are also glad you didn’t really get eaten by a pack of wolves in the Montana wilderness while trying to find some place remote enough so you would be safe from COVID, and by the way, Sorin Jen Psaki, vaccinated to the gills. just came down with the COVID so what do you think of that?
We all wish you would go back where you came from…
Sorin can’t do that, anymore, since Joe Biden has started WWIII, which has Sorin thoroughly screwed, big-time, because with Joe starting WWIII, it will be worse over there than here, and thus, there goes Sorin’s escape route, unless he wants to go to Ukraine and fight over there as a partisan.