ER Editor: See also this by Vladimir Platov for New Eastern Outlook – The Bidens Funded the Activities of Secret US Biolabs.
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Pentagon-Ukraine Bio Labs: The Hunter Biden Connection
FREDDY PONTON for 21st CENTURY WIRE
It would be an understatement to say the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s announcement of US-funded bio labs in Ukraine and concerns over the development of biological weapons had its fair share of attention over the last few weeks.
Only the story doesn’t end there, with the trail of evidence leading directly to the US political, military, intelligence, and pharmaceutical establishments.
Undoubtedly, this story has all the ingredients for a giant international scandal, and when juxtaposed with the current war in Ukraine, it has the potential to influence the diplomatic, political and military trajectories of the conflict.
Still, Washington continues to deny any involvement. When pressed on the matter, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby referred to the Russian claims as “a bunch of malarkey.” However, despite the many evasions and obfuscations from US officials, the facts of this case remain overwhelming.
While US officials and western mainstream media quickly denied the existence of any US involvement in these biological facilities, their claims are confounded with the release of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, including the existence of 15 official US documents previously posted, and recently removed from the US Embassy in Kyiv’s official website, confirming the presence of at least 11 bio labs, plus 2 other new labs which were due to be constructed in Odessa and Kyiv, These US bio labs situated in Ukraine were established between 2009 and 2012, and paid for by the US Department of Defense (DOD) and the DTRA Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
The program appears to be an offspring of the 1991 Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act. Amongst other things, the act was designed to reduce the risk of bioterrorism and prevent the proliferation of biological weapons, including extremely dangerous pathogens.
This was followed by 2005 bi-lateral treaty agreement between the United States and Ukraine on weapons proliferation, signed by representatives of the US Department of Defense and the Ukrainian Ministry of Health.
Izvestia published on 26 May 2020 an article which raises concerns about the existence of “eight laboratories that were built and modernized with the participation of the US Defense Special Weapons Agency (DTRA) as part of the Special Biological Engagement Program between 2005 and 2014 and which provided “assistance to Ukraine in preventing the spread of dangerous pathogens.”
The article followed claims by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova, who warned on 17 April 2020, that “the United States may be developing deadly pathogens” in its “overseas laboratories,” adding that, “the United States is trying to strengthen its biological presence, including in the post-Soviet space.”
Things got slightly more serious when Commander of the Russian CBRN (Nuclear, Radiological, Biological and Chemical) defense force, Igor Kirillov explained how part of its UP-4 project with the participation of laboratories in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odessa, the United States appeared to be working to develop potentially powerful biological weapons. One of the purposes of the project appears to involve the spread of particularly dangerous infections through migratory birds.https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NrZWxldG9uX2xvYWRpbmdfMTMzOTgiOnsiYnVja2V0IjoiY3RhIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19zcGFjZV9jYXJkIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9mZiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9fQ%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1502270815592755204&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.europereloaded.com%2Fpentagon-ukraine-bio-labs-the-hunter-biden-connection%2F&sessionId=0b4e4f0c9cbfc67a388af23061d0ca112055deba&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2582c61%3A1645036219416&width=550px
Kirillov added, “Considering that Ukraine has a unique geographical position where transcontinental migration routes intersect, they were studying 145 biological species within the framework of this project,” adding that “at least two species of migratory birds were identified, the migration routes of which pass through Russian territories.”
According to Kirillov, it was planned to spread particularly dangerous infectious diseases with the help of birds. In particular, it goes about [sic] highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza and Newcastle disease.
“Of all methods developed in the United States to destabilize the epidemiological situation, this one is one of the most reckless and irresponsible ones, as it does not allow to control the further development of the situation,” the official said. “With a high degree of probability, we can say that one of the tasks of the United States and its allies was to create bio agents that could selectively target various ethnic groups of the population,” Igor Kirillov concluded.
The Russian Ministry of Defense added that the obtained documents confirmed the transfer of many biological samples taken from Ukrainian people abroad. For example, Germany is funding project No. 68727 EN to study the pathogens of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever and Hantaviruses. As part of the project, hundreds of samples of blood serum taken from residents of various regions of Ukraine were transferred to the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Hamburg. The samples belonged only to the Slavic ethnic group.
Additionally, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov, added that, “the American side planned to conduct work on bird, bat and reptile pathogens subsequently proceeding to researching the possibility of them transmitting African swine fever and anthrax.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke frankly on the bio lab revelations:
On the scandalous topic of US biolabs in Ukraine, Lavrov described some of the dangerous pathogens that were being experimented with there, including those “which could be related to the ethnic groups living in the east of Ukraine and in neighboring regions of Russia.” In other words, he implied that America was plotting to create bioweapons that would specifically target people with the Russian genome, which would then have been used by its ethno–fascist proxies in Kiev for genocidal purposes.
Furthermore, “the Americans some years ago decided that it is too dangerous to do these things on their own soil. So they moved all these threatening and dangerous activities to other countries, and more and more they concentrate their research and experiments around the borders of the Russian Federation and China.” This clearly proves that the US’ Hybrid War against the dual engines of the emerging Multipolar World Order has a crucial biological warfare component.
Needless to say, the presence of these programs and the fact they are being funded by the Pentagon will be regarded as a national security threat to the Russian Federation.
In a Donbass Insider article we can read the following: “UKR_Leaks provide a unique insight into the procedure for destroying the strains studied in biological laboratories in Ukraine, following the launch of the Russian military operation. One of the documents indicates that on 25 February 2022, the day after the launch of the Russian invasion, the following strains were completely destroyed in a laboratory in Kharkov.” This may include (but not be limited to) the following pathogens:
- Candida albicans (a fungus that causes candidiasis)
- Escherichia coli (bacteria that can cause ulcers, urinary tract infections and even prostatitis)
- Serratia marcescens (a bacterium that can cause urinary tract infections and bloodstream infections)
- Shigella sonnei and Shigella flexneri (bacteria that cause shigellosis, an intestinal infection)
- Salmonella Typhimurium (causes intestinal infections)
- Proteus vulgaris
- Enterobacter aerogenes (hospital-acquired infections)
- Staphylococcus aureus (Staphylococcus aureus, which can cause food poisoning, as well as local or generalized infections up to and including sepsis)
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa (highly antibiotic-resistant bacteria that cause hospital-acquired infections)
- Proteus mirabilis (urinary tract and skin infections)
- Klebsiella pneumonia (pneumonia and urinary tract infections, but a virulent strain from Asia can infect the central nervous system and has a high mortality rate)
- Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum (dangerous if immune system is depressed)
- Corynebacterium xerosis
- Corynebacterium diphtheriae (causes diphtheria)
- Bacillus licheniformis
- Bacillus stearothermophilus
According to reports acknowledged by the Russian Ministry of Defense, 232 containers housing the pathogen of leptospirosis, 30 containers of tularemia, 10 of brucellosis and five of plague, have all been destroyed in Kyiv.
The Russian authorities believe that in total, there are 30 such biological laboratories based in Ukraine which are financed and supervised by the Americans (with a budget of over 200 million dollars).
Finally, on the 11th March 2022, Sergeĭ Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation requested a meeting with the United Nation security Council for Russian United Nations Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia to elaborate further and divulge findings pertaining to their intelligence report on the alleged US-backed Ukrainian Bioweapon Program.https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-1&features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NrZWxldG9uX2xvYWRpbmdfMTMzOTgiOnsiYnVja2V0IjoiY3RhIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19zcGFjZV9jYXJkIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9mZiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9fQ%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1502356910187630598&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.europereloaded.com%2Fpentagon-ukraine-bio-labs-the-hunter-biden-connection%2F&sessionId=0b4e4f0c9cbfc67a388af23061d0ca112055deba&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2582c61%3A1645036219416&width=550px
From an investigative point of view, we must therefore take a closer look into the companies entrusted by the United States and Ukrainian government to undertake the construction and management of these highly sensitive bio labs.
It is difficult, if not impossible to believe that such a vast project could receive the go-ahead without broad political support in the US. When it comes to government programs, a general rule of thumb is that where there is political support, there is also powerful corporate lobbies and NGOs. Hence, we must take a look at the corporate contractors who supply the DoD, DTRA and USAID in order to understand their background, and where any conflicts of interest may have occurred.
Through these contractors, we may also discover clues as to why a country located in Europe’s own ‘backyard,’ and which borders Russia, was chosen to develop such highly contentious research and associated bio labs.
Metabiota and the Biden Connection
Until recently, few were aware that this Ukrainian bio lab story goes much deeper than just the Pentagon funding, but straight into the nexus of US political and corporate power.
The Bidens’ Web of interests is large but first let’s take a look at Metabiota.
Metabiota was previously known as Global Viral (GV), which was previously known as Global Viral Forecasting Institute (GVFI), initially founded as an organization focused on the study of infectious diseases, their transmission between animals and humans, and the risk involved with their global spread. However, these areas of research have now shifted to Metabiota, an independent company that focuses on data and risk analysis associated with diseases outbreaks.
This firm is a key fulcrum in the new global pandemic industrial complex. On their corporate home page, Metabiota states:
“Our mission: Making the world more resilient to epidemics. Epidemics threaten lives and livelihoods around the world. We provide data, analytics, advice, and training to prepare for global health threats and mitigate their impacts.”