The Pentagon said a number of countries, including Russia, are pursuing biological weapons development programs. This is reported in the US Department of Defense report on the state of protection against biological threats. DEA News.
“The United States considers that North Korea and Russia are continuing aggressive biological weapons programs in violation of obligations under the Biological Weapons and Toxins Convention and expresses concern over Iran’s activities,” the document said. At the same time, it is not specified what exactly his assessment is based on.
The US military department stressed that the Russian Federation does not fully recognize the existence of former Soviet programs and does not provide evidence of their removal.
On August 16, the head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, stated that the United States can conduct a wide range of military applied work with dangerous pathogens, which are components of biological weapons.
Prior to this, Kirillov said that the US military’s experiments with mosquitoes provoke the emergence of artificial foci of epidemics. He emphasized that American military biologists have successfully mastered the methods of adaptation and breeding of vectors collected in their habitats.
In June, the head of the RCBZ troops during a briefing of the United States create artificial foci of dangerous infections during military biological research.
Previously at the Ministry of National Defense in your name The US method of delivering infected mosquitoes.