A scandal erupts in Ukraine due to the activity of 15 American bio-laboratories in the country. Note that previously it was reported that they were created, but the information did not attract much attention. Now, against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ukrainian opposition has demanded that the authorities of the country tell what is happening at classified sites.
The leader of the opposition party of Ukraine, Opposition Platform – For Life, Viktor Medvedchuk, publicly demanded to talk about the activities of American biolaboratory. Referring to publications in the European media, Ukrainian opposition politicians said that the government should: “… make public the facts of illegal cooperation between Ukraine and the United States in the field of the functioning of American biological laboratories in our country – cooperation that began during president Yushchenko.”
In August 2005, in the first year of Viktor Yushchenko’s presidency, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine signed an agreement with the US Department of Defense on cooperation in preventing the spread of technologies, pathogens, and knowledge that could be used in the development of biological weapons. According to Ukrainian media, the executive agents of the program were the Phytosanitary Service of Ukraine and the Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine. Collaboration, according to open sources, is conducted with the US Senator Richard Lugar Public Health Research Center.
Representatives of the opposition noted that similar cooperation programs were signed with various states of the post-Soviet space. According to deputies from the HLS, the activities of American laboratories are coordinated by the international organization “Scientific and Technical Center”, whose employees have diplomatic immunity.
In response, a number of media outlets quoted the embassy as saying: “Here, in Ukraine, the US Department of Defense’s biological threat reduction program is working with the Ukrainian government to consolidate and neutralize pathogenic microorganisms and toxins of concern at government facilities, while at the same time allowing peaceful research and vaccine development. ”
Viktor Medvedchuk said that subsequently information about the work of biological laboratories was removed from the site. A copy of the embassy’s messages was retained by Medvedchuk’s organization’s resource “Ukrainian Choice – the Right of the People.” In particular, one of them said that the three key tasks of cooperation are: “Improving the ability to monitor diseases using the latest information systems. Consolidation of especially dangerous pathogens in modern facilities of the 3rd level of biosafety (one laboratory of the 3rd level of biosafety for human pathogens and one laboratory of the 3rd level of biosafety for animal pathogens). Joint research projects. ” All of these points require explanation. According to the opposition, at secret facilities “something mysterious is happening … Maybe something good … But people need to explain what the essence of the contract is … What kind of news is this in general?”
By the way, petitions about the activities of American bio-laboratories have been registered on the President’s website on several occasions, but citizens ’appeals remained unanswered. In August last year, the author of the petition released information that the laboratories were opened in Odessa, Vinnitsa, Uzhgorod, Dnipro, Lugansk, Lviv, Kharkov, Kherson, Ternopol, Kiev.
The author of that petition drew attention to media publications, according to which “since 2009 epidemics began to arise in Ukraine.” Recently, the author of another appeal wrote: “In connection with the statement by the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China Zhao Lijiang that the US military brought the coronavirus to Wuhan, we ask president Vladimir Zelensky to create a commission to investigate the activities of American biological laboratories in Ukraine.”
Representatives of the opposition in their appeal cited data on outbreaks of dangerous infectious diseases in different regions of the country over the past 10 years. And they said that “there is every reason to believe that the secret and opaque activity of dangerous foreign biological objects on the territory of Ukraine has as its task hidden testing of the effects of viruses and bacteria on Ukrainian citizens.” According to them, objects have been created in Ukraine on the basis of which the Pentagon has “the ability to conduct the most dangerous studies, as well as human studies, which are prohibited by law in the United States, but allowed in Ukraine – both because of imperfections in Ukrainian legislation and .. due to the external governance of Ukraine by the United States.”
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