/Multimedia/ Exclusive: U.S.-led biolaboratory activities pose a potential threat to both the people of Ukraine and the peoples of other states - former Ukrainian state security officer 2022-04-15 14:15:45丨Russian.News.Cn BEIJING, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Vasily Prozorov, who calls himself a former member of the Ukrainian state security agencies, recently said that biological laboratories in Ukraine under the leadership of the United States have long been engaged in secret development and the activities of such biological laboratories pose a potential threat to both the people of Ukraine and and the peoples of other states. The corresponding statement was widely covered in the Russian media. The other day, Xinhua correspondents interviewed V. Prozorov via videoconference. "I'm afraid it will be scary if this infection suddenly breaks out of the laboratories. But it will be scary not only for Ukraine, it will be scary for the whole of Europe, at least," said V. Prozorov. He recommends sending international specialists and experts to these laboratories to check and find out the truth. Corr. Xinhua was unable to verify the information disclosed by V. Prozorov. "REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY OF UKRAINE COULD NOT GET ACCESS TO THE SPECIFIED OBJECTS" V. Prozorov said that he had been an employee of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) since 1999, and since 2014 he had been working for about four years in the central office of the SBU in the city of Kyiv - in the anti-terrorist center. He had access to classified documents containing information about the activities of the US-Ukrainian laboratories. "I am definitely convinced that the activity of such laboratories on the territory of Ukraine poses a potential threat to both the people of Ukraine and the peoples of other states," he said. According to him, in 2005, the US Department of Defense and the Ukrainian Ministry of Health entered into an agreement on joint activities in the field of biological cooperation. Within the framework of this agreement, the American side first "undertook to modernize these laboratories, and then completely subjugated the activities of these laboratories." "Since 2005, when the United States began working with Ukraine, they actively lobbied for the creation of a central reference laboratory, where it was necessary to collect all the most active strains and pathogens of especially dangerous infectious diseases," V. Prozorov said. According to him, in the end, after 2014, the American side achieved the creation of such a repository of pathogens and especially dangerous substances on the territory of Ukraine. "And indeed, a very large collection of these infectious diseases, strains has been preserved there since Soviet times. Moreover, in 2010 this collection was estimated at $ 2 billion, but after 2014 the American side took the most valuable samples to the United States," he said. "It came to the point that representatives of the scientific community of Ukraine could not gain access to these facilities just to make sure that no prohibited developments were being carried out there. They were simply not allowed there, motivated by the fact that the laboratories are objects At the same time, representatives of the US Department of Defense and the contractor Black and Veatch had easy access there, worked quietly, as if they were engaged in development, - said V. Prozorov. - In addition, a number of documents that I have, specifically about projects, for example, UP-4 /UP is Ukraine Project/, UP-5, even the names of project leaders are clearly indicated there.And these are not Ukrainian citizens, these are representatives of the US scientific community, specifically these are doctors from the University of Louisville , from the U.S. Department of Infectious Diseases Research Institute and other hospitals." "UKRAINIAN PEOPLE DIDN'T SUSPECT THAT LITERALLY IN THE NEXT QUARTER WORK WITH DANGEROUS VIRUSES IS CARRIED OUT" V. Prozorov noted that for a long time in Ukraine no one at all knew anything about these laboratories: laboratories is such that even the representatives of the legislative branch of power fail and failed to understand this situation, so the Ukrainian people, all the more, did not know anything about these laboratories. work with dangerous viruses of the fourth category: pathogens of plague, cholera, anthrax". Speaking about the safety of these biological laboratories, V. Prozorov noted that due to the terrible secrecy regime, there are no reliably documented facts of leaks from these laboratories, but the fact that since 2014 the number of epidemics of infectious diseases has increased sharply in Ukraine is true. “For example, the measles epidemic. Measles was not there for a long time, but in 2018 and 2019 it was an epidemic in which tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people were sick with deaths. those regions where the American-Ukrainian laboratories are located," he said. He said that the US work program in Ukrainian laboratories is very extensive and people can only know a part of the information about their activities. "But even what we have been able to establish, what we have learned, clearly shows that American scientists, military scientists, representatives of the US Department of Defense and contractors, specifically Black and Veatch Special Projects, were conducting biological weapons research on the territory of Ukraine. , including, possibly, a selective type of action, that is, the impact on different types of genome," he said. V. Prozorov believes that objects that can be affected by biological weapons can be divided into three parts: people, animals and plants. "If we are talking about biological weapons, then it is not necessary, say, to breed this type of pathogen, this type of infection that will kill people ... All these three components will calmly lead to chaos in the country and hunger, to the destruction of infrastructure, to enormous losses After that, the country can be taken with bare hands,” he said. V. Prozorov considers biological weapons primarily offensive. “Before the aggressor wants to take over the country, the easiest way is to infect this territory with some strains of especially dangerous infectious diseases. As a result, the country will be colossally weakened, there will even be no question of the population dying out, but huge efforts will be needed to in order to localize the centers of infection, the centers of epidemics, it is necessary to spend huge forces and funds on medicines, on personnel, on the operation of clinics, to deploy new centers. All this will simply undermine the economic and defense power of the state. After that, come and take it with your bare hands," V explained. Prozorov: "Therefore, I believe that biological weapons are primarily an offensive, aggressive type of weapon. In addition, it is, of course, a weapon for terrorist acts." "WE SHOULD CREATE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION AND CHECK SUCH BIOLABORATORIES" According to media reports, on March 25, 2019, a press conference was held in Moscow with the participation of V. Prozorov. During the press conference, he presented a diploma, which was given to him for "high professionalism and commitment to strengthening the state security of Ukraine." On the same day, the SBU noted that V. Prozorov was fired from this service due to the systematic use of alcohol at the workplace. V. Prozorov said that although after 2018 he no longer worked in the SBU, he still had sources in Ukraine through which he received relevant information. "In particular, I was able to establish contacts with officials from the Ministry of Health /Ukrainian, Ministry of Health -- Xinhua/, who also provided me with interesting documents on this issue," he said. - We can say that these are open sources, these are documents that I received during the period when I worked in the SBU, and these are documents from state institutions of Ukraine that I received after 18 years through my operational capabilities. I have full confidence in these documents, these sources, to the extent that I am ready to act as a witness in court." During World War II, Japanese militarists created Detachment 731 in China to conduct research in the development of biological weapons. V. Prozorov said that these studies led to the death of many Chinese prisoners of war and civilians, because thousands and tens of thousands of people were guinea pigs for Japanese virologists and biologists. “After the war, you know, there was a Khabarovsk Tribunal, where they convicted, among other things, the officers of the Japanese detachment 731, but the American side took them all. And as far as I know, judging by the declassified materials, they all got jobs in the US Department of Defense , in Fort Detrick, which is specifically engaged in research in the field of biological weapons. Therefore, it is not surprising that the Americans are now following the path that these Japanese assassins paved for them," he said. According to V. Prozorov, the world community should demand from the United States full information about the activities of such laboratories in Ukraine and other countries of the former Soviet Union, as well as send a group of international specialists and experts to check such laboratories. “Moreover, not just limit yourself to official answers from the United States, but demand the creation of an international commission, which would include representatives of foreign states. Even if not from Russia, but from other states that could see for themselves, see what the United States was doing in these laboratories. And if it turns out that the American side was developing a new type of biological weapon, then the international community will have to take the toughest sanctions against America, because this is expressly prohibited by the 1972 convention," he said. "The American side, as far as I know, has already taken all the research results, a collection of strains, pathogens out of Ukraine. You need to ask there, you need to ask the United States, the Americans ... We need to send / US-led biolaboratories in Central Asian countries / experts there and demand from local authorities and from American curators, so that they give access to these laboratories to international specialists and experts.Like IAEA experts who can check nuclear facilities around the world, like OPCW experts can travel and check sites around the world where there is a suspicion that there should be an international group of experts in this convention on the prohibition of toxin weapons, there should be a supervisory body, but, unfortunately, it was not created precisely because of the disagreement of the United States. as an international expert group, a community that would check and find out the truth, no other options We don't have any soldiers," V. Prozorov stated.