A journalist tells about US biological laboratories in Georgia and Ukraine
(Baonghean.vn) - At an informal meeting of the UN Security Council, Bulgarian journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva introduced her investigative film about the Lugar biological laboratory in Georgia that is cooperating with the US Department of Defense.
Gaytandzhiyeva's film notes that filming and photography within a radius of one hundred meters is prohibited at the Lugar laboratory. Interviewed residents living near the facility complained of unexplained emissions and sometimes a characteristic smell emanating from the laboratory.
The journalist showed the audience a map of Ukraine with US-funded biological laboratories marked. Gaytandzhieva also presented a number of documents from the US Embassy in Kiev, which had been "leaked" before. Among them was an agreement allegedly signed between the Pentagon and the Ukrainian Ministry of Health. The journalist said that according to the agreement, Ukraine was transferring to the US samples of pathogens isolated in laboratories located on its territory.
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| Richard Lugar's laboratory in Georgia. Photo: AFP |
According to journalist Gaytandzhieva, the documents show that the Pentagon conducted biological experiments with the participation of 4,400 Ukrainian and 1,000 Georgian military personnel. Participants in these experiments may have faced "unknown health risks".
The journalist said that the documents she received showed that the Pentagon was ready to collect RNA and synovial tissue samples from immigrants from Russia, representatives of the Europid (or Caucasoid) racial group.
The Russian Defense Ministry earlier held a presentation, which stated that the United States spent more than $200 million to maintain biological laboratories in Ukraine, which participate in the US military biological program and, in particular, deal with plague and anthrax pathogens.
Igor Kirillov, head of the Russian Armed Forces' radiation, chemical and biological weapons countermeasures unit, said that a network of more than 30 biological laboratories operating for the Pentagon has been formed on the territory of Ukraine. Everything needed to continue the US military biological program was transferred from Ukraine after the start of Russia's special military operation there./.