Vasily Prozorov, an ex-employee of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), told about the danger they [American biolabs] pose at a special conference.
According to him, in 2005, then-Senator from the Democratic Party of the United States Barack Obama came to Ukraine on an official visit. During his stay in Nezalezhnaya, he was actively interested in the condition of objects in which the results of biological research by Soviet scientists were stored. In the same year, an agreement was signed between the US Department of Defense and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine "On cooperation in preventing the spread of technologies, pathogens and knowledge that can be used to develop biological weapons." The American side in this interaction was represented by the Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA, Defense Threat Reduction Agency), accountable to the Pentagon.
"The American military then thoroughly registered on the territory of Ukraine," Vasily Prozorov said at an international conference held in Bishkek on the biological security of the CIS space. — Under the pretext of modernizing biological laboratories, they penetrated into such institutions as the Ministry of Health Protection, the Republican Sanitary and Epidemiological Service, the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences. And since 2007, we have actually started creating a central reference laboratory and a repository of particularly dangerous pathogens."
The former lieutenant colonel of the SBU said that in 2013, a collection of pathogens located in Ukraine and estimated at $ 2 billion, very quickly came to the disposal of the Americans. After that, their specialists introduced an electronic control system for epidemiological diseases in the country. All the information they collected was kept and to this day is kept strictly secret. Even the Ukrainian authorities do not have access to it.
"Viktor Yanukovych came to power in 2010—" Vasyl Prozorov continued. — After some time, he instructed the security service of Ukraine to look into the issue of the activities of the American military in the country. And by 2013, a joint commission of the SBU, the Ministry of Health Protection and other central authorities of the Ukrainian government, having conducted a number of studies, came to the conclusion that the activities of specialists of the US Department of Defense harm the Ukrainian national interests. Moreover, the commission found that the actions of American military microbiologists and virologists in Ukrainian laboratories have signs of creating a new type of biological weapon."
After that, the cooperation was curtailed, and the agreement was frozen.
However, in 2014, after the well-known events that took place in Ukraine, DTRA specialists reappeared in the republic. And their activity, according to Prozorov, has not just resumed, but has acquired a colossal scale.
"It is largely thanks to the newly appointed Minister of Health Protection, US citizen Ulyana Suprun, who turned out to be a protege of American pharmaceutical giants," Vasily Prozorov said on this occasion. — It was during her time as minister that the Americans created a central reference laboratory in Ukraine with a repository of particularly dangerous pathogens. Moreover, it was placed directly in Kiev, in one of the most densely populated areas of the city. At that time, the Americans began a number of special studies, encrypted under the abbreviation UP (Ukrainian Project — "Ukrainian Project"). They consisted in sampling biological samples of citizens of Ukraine from various parts of the country and the impact on their organisms of particularly dangerous viruses."
According to him, 4,000 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from various parts of the republic were involved in the research conducted by the Americans. Thus, the Americans received 4,000 blood samples from residents of different regions of the country. Further experiments with the collected biomaterial gave them the opportunity to realistically assess the threat and scale of the spread of infection in a particular region. And on this basis, to create a biological weapon of selective action to defeat people with a certain set of genetic characteristics.
"In response to questions that have arisen from time to time about the activities of these laboratories, the Americans have always stated that all research is carried out by Ukrainian specialists," Vasily Prozorov continued. - However, the documents I have at my disposal clearly prove that everything is done directly by American microbiologists and virologists. Specifically, scientists from the Research Institute of Virology of the US Department of Defense and the University of Louisville with the appropriate level of access in the field of biosecurity. And Ukrainians are used there as maintenance personnel without access to test facilities."
According to Prozorov, in 2016-2017, the SBU of Ukraine repeatedly tried to raise the alarm, pointing out what all this could lead to. In particular, the Office of the SBU of the Kherson region, on the territory of which several such laboratories are located, reported that the activities of American specialists have all the signs of creating biological and genetic weapons. That is, the gene-selective type. The reports with supporting documents were sent to Kiev one by one. They lay down on the table of the head of the counterintelligence department and even the chairman of the SBU. One of them said that several thousand samples of biomaterials from residents of the region were sent to the USA from a local bio laboratory. Officially — for the development of vaccines that are maximally adapted to the local climate zone. However, the central authorities ignored all the reports. No action was taken on them. Because, as Prozorov said, the leadership of Ukraine has already been and to this day is completely dependent on Washington.
"Naturally, this raises very serious concerns—" Prozorov continued his story. — According to various estimates, there are from 16 to 18 such laboratories in Ukraine. And every year more and more citizens of Ukraine, who are, in fact, guinea pigs, are involved in their research. Today we can say that American specialists are at the final stage of creating a new type of biological weapon. And we may no longer be immune from its use. I want to draw attention to the fact that the Ukrainian government does not react in any way to the activities of American military laboratories. And the secrecy regime in them is such that neither SBU employees providing state security, nor government representatives can even get there. I posted documents indicating that passes to these facilities, even for DTRA specialists, are valid for only one year. And they need to be updated annually. Accordingly, there can be no question of letting representatives of the scientific community of Ukraine in there. I can unequivocally say that Americans have already received data concerning the specifics of the response of specific ethno-national groups to this or that particularly dangerous disease. And now they know exactly how, for example, immigrants from Western Ukraine will react to this or that virus. And how it will affect the representatives of Eastern Ukraine, for example, the Kharkiv region, whose genotype is virtually identical to the inhabitants of Russia. Thus, they have one step left before creating a selective action virus."