Russia: Ukraine plans to stage provocations with chemicals
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Fear of US biolabs in Ukraine mount as Russia warns that Ukrainian nationalists are planning provocations that will involve toxic chemicals.
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Biological labs are found in Ukraine by Russian forces.
The head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, Mikhail Mizintsev, said on Saturday that the Ukrainian nationalists are planning provocations involving toxic chemicals in several settlements to blame on Russian armed forces, with direct support from the US and a number of EU countries.
"In Sumy, at the SumyKhimProm chemical plant, nationalists have mined storage facilities with ammonia and chlorine in order to mass poison the residents of the Sumy region when units of the Russian armed forces enter the city," Mizintsev added.
Ukrainian militants have also planned provocations involving the use of toxic chemicals in the Mykolaiv region village of Kotlyarovo, he stressed.
"For this, containers with toxic chemicals have already been delivered to the building of the local elementary school. They will be blown up when Russian troops approach," Mizintsev noted.
Russia has warned the international community and international organizations in advance about the Ukrainian authorities' planned "cynical provocations", which, if carried out, will once again be blamed on Russian troops, Mizintsev emphasized.
"All this is being done with the direct support of the US leadership and a number of countries of the European Union, which consider Ukraine as an instrument of anti-Russian policy," he concluded.
On his account, the head of the radiation, chemical, and biological defense of the Russian armed forces Igor Kirillov has lately reported that Russian forces found 30 biological laboratories in Ukraine, possibly used to develop biological weapons.
The client is Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), in conjunction with a company affiliated with the military department, namely Black and Veatch, which is involved with implementing the projects, according to Kirillov.
In a similar context, Kirillov unmasked that the entire amount of US support for military biological work carried out at Ukrainian Ministry of Defense facilities was $32 million.
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One of the documents Russian officials recovered from Ukraine (ROSSIYA1 TV)
The official presented a document dated March 6, 2015, confirming the Pentagon's direct participation in the financing of military biological projects in Ukraine, stating that, as is customary, US projects in the field of sanitary and epidemiological well-being in third countries, including Africa and Asia, are funded through national health authorities.
Furthermore, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesperson Major General Igor Konashenkov has recently revealed that Kiev was urgently covering up traces of a military biological program carried out in Ukraine and funded by the Pentagon.
It is worth mentioning that Moscow has repeatedly called for the release of data on military biological activities of the pentagon in third-world countries, but the West keeps blocking the initiative.
