Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, Head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Corps of the RF Armed Forces (RCBZ), is on the way Information He stated that the USA moved its biological laboratories to third countries due to the high risk of accidents.
“The high risk of accidents in US biological laboratories is one of the reasons why they are withdrawn from national jurisdiction and relocated to the territory of third countries, including Ukraine and other states,” he said.
According to Kirillov, this may explain the worsening of the epidemic situation in the areas where they live and the emergence of diseases and their vectors unusual for these regions.
The General pointed out that the United States has a decentralized system for monitoring security breaches in biolabs, so only facilities funded by the federal budget are covered. He also stressed that the state does not control private laboratories, despite their research into particularly dangerous pathogens.
“The absence of uniform standards for the activities of such facilities risks gross violations of research and safety requirements by circumventing the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxic Weapons,” the General said.
Kirillov also said that the Russian Ministry of Defense has documents. to approve Cooperation between Kyiv and Washington and attempts to establish control over pathogens in Ukrainian laboratories.