That's creepy...
I've just came across Dilyana Gaytandzhieva's tweet on it:
The RT article:
The Russian's might have been sitting on these Documents, closely observing activity, to gather and obtain further evidence to substantiate the claims of the "leaker" but decided to make the information "public", in light of the Skripal poisoning? I also wonder, given the details of different substances, as bio-weapons being stuffed into canisters - if any of these lethal canisters might have been distributed to the White Helmet's? Before Israel rescued it's Intelligence operatives, along with the top brass of the White Helmet's, they were planning another chemical attack but Russia put out "warnings" and they aborted.
Thu Oct 04, 2018 - Russian MoD: Dozens of Georgians Likely Killed by US Toxin or Bioweapon Disguised as Drug Research
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The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement that a US-funded biomedical laboratory in Georgia may have conducted bioweapons research under the guise of a drug test, which claimed the lives of at least 73 subjects.
The Richard Lugar Center for Public Health Research has been operating near Georgian capital Tbilisi since August 2013. A former Georgian minister not long ago claimed he obtained leaked documents detailing the work of this facility, RT reported.
The Russian defense ministry on Thursday stated that the documents indicate that a test of weapons of mass destruction may have taken place at the cite.
The documents record the deaths of 73 people over a short period of time, indicating a test of “a highly toxic chemical or biological agents with high lethality rate,” Igor Kirillov, the commander of the Russian military branch responsible for defending troops from radiological, chemical and biological weapons, said.
The documents, which were handed over to the Russian military by Igor Giorgadze, the former Georgian minister for state security, say that the test involved a drug called Sovaldi, which is meant for the treatment of Hepatitis C. The producer of the drug is Gilead Sciences, a California-based biomedical firm that recruited former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld as a board member in 1988, in between his two tenures as head of the Pentagon.
“The documents showed many lethal outcomes among the patients. Despite the deaths of 24 people in December 2015 alone, the clinical trials were continued in violation of international standards and the wishes of the patients,” Kirillov claimed, adding that “this led to the deaths of 49 more people.”
The large number of deaths stands in stark contrast with the actual documented use of Sovaldi in Russia, where no deaths have been linked to the drug, the Russian official stressed. Kirillov stressed that
the US has a long record of unethical testing on human subjects in foreign countries.
The Russian official said the new documents “allow us to take a fresh look” at outbreaks of African swine fever in Southern Russia in 2007-2018, which “spread from the territory of Georgia into the Russian Federation, European nations and China. The infection strain in the samples collected from animals killed by the disease in those nations was “identical to the Georgia-2007 strain”.
The general added that the Lugar Center in Georgia is simply part of a large network of Pentagon-controlled laboratories involved in WMD research, which was established in countries neighboring Russia.
Part of the research is meant to establish infections that would be particularly resistant to vaccination and treatment, and effectively spread in the environment of the places in which the labs are located, he stressed.
The Russian Defense Ministry also stated that Washington was highly likely boosting its military and biological potential under the cover of peace research, according to Sputnik.
"The United States is consistently increasing its biological potential and control of national collections of pathogenic microorganisms not only in the former Soviet republics. More than 30 US-controlled laboratories with a high level of biological protection are functioning and are being constantly modernized today, which has been confirmed by official UN data," Kirillov said.
The official stated that the Russian Defense Ministry was aware of the United States researching ways to deliver and unleash biological weapons in breach of international accords, stressing that there were images of munition the United States considered using to deliver chemical and biological agents.
"This is in line with the US concept of ‘contactless warfare’… They [images] show how capsules can be filled with poisonous, radioactive or narcotic substances, and pathogens. Such munitions are not listed among conventional or humane weapons, while any publishing of such data runs against international accords on nonproliferation of biological weapons," Kirillov noted.
Oct. 4, 2018 - Russia wants answers from US, Georgia on bioweapons at Lugar Center
Russia wants answers from US, Georgia on bioweapons at Lugar Center
Chief of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops Major General Igor Kirillov
© Mikhail Pochuev/TASS
The Russian Defense Ministry expects answers from the United States and Georgia why munitions for chemical and biological weapons are stored at the Richard Lugar Public Health Research Center, Chief of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops Major General Igor Kirillov said.
According to Kirillov, ministry’s experts have studied materials published by former Georgian State Security Minister Igor Giorgadze on US activities at the Richard Lugar Public Health Research Center, located in the Georgian settlement of Alekseyevka. He said that a number of patents listed various types of munitions intended for delivering chemical and biological agents.
"It raises a question - ‘Why such documents are stored at the Lugar Public Health Research Center?’ We expect a clear-cut answer to this question from the Georgian and American sides," Kirillov said.
The general said that the description of munitions included such characteristics as "… the low destruction cost and the absence of the need to contact with enemy manpower." According to him, "this corresponds to the concept of ‘non-contact warfare,’ the United States is implementing."
These patents indicate a possibility to stuff capsules with poisonous, radioactive, narcotic substances as well as with infectious disease pathogens.
"These munitions are not related to the list of conventional armaments and humane tools of warfare, while the publication of this information contradicts international accords on the prohibition of biological weapons," Kirillov added.
The United States is very likely to have tested a toxic drug or a highly lethal biological agent at the Lugar Center in Georgia under the guise of medical research, he added. Russian military specialists in the sphere of radiological, chemical and biological protection analyzed the materials published by former Georgian State Security Minister Igor Giorgadze on US activity at the Richard Lugar Public Health Research Center located in the township of Alekseyevka near the capital of Tbilisi, Kirillov said.
The Russian general highlighted the deaths of patients at the Lugar Center when medicine under the Sovaldi brand in the documents had been tested.
Kirillov noted that the US-based Gilead Sciences, in which former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is a key shareholder, manufactured the drug.
"In fact, the simultaneous death of a large number of volunteers is reason to believe that a highly toxic chemical drug or a highly lethal biological agent was assessed under the guise of medical treatment at the Lugar Center," the general said.
Despite the deaths of 24 patients in December 2015 alone when the Sovaldi drug was tested, "this clinical research was continued in violation of international standards and contrary to the patients’ wishes," which "led to the death of 49 more people."
"Even during widespread epidemics at in-patient infection clinics, such a large number of lethal cases has never been recorded," the general said.
The above-mentioned Sovaldi medicine is listed in the Registration of Pharmaceuticals of the Russian Federation and "not a single lethal case was recorded during its clinical testing,"Kirillov said.
Oct. 4, 2018 - Russia to take diplomatic, military steps in response to US experiments in Georgia
Russia to take diplomatic, military steps in response to US experiments in Georgia
The chairman of Russia’s State Duma Defense Committee said that the concerned agencies were recommended to appeal to the UN and the OPCW, asking for an inspection of the Lugar laboratory.
Russia will take diplomatic and military measures in response to an extensive US military-biological program in several countries neighboring Russia, in particular Georgia, Chairman of Russia’s State Duma (lower house of parliament) Defense Committee and former Commander of the Russian Airborne Troops Vladimir Shamanov told TASS on Thursday.
When asked whether it is necessary to increase the number of units of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops in southern Russia, he answered in the negative.
"There is no need yet to increase [the number] of such units there. However, it is obvious that a number of measures will be taken at the national level," the lawmaker stressed.
"We cannot just turn a blind eye, knowing that something, which directly affects security on the southern borders, is happening there. We will take diplomatic and military measures," he confirmed.
According to Shamanov,
the State Duma Defense Committee has recommended the concerned Russian agencies to appeal to the UN and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), asking for an inspection of the Lugar laboratory in Georgia, where ammunition for chemical and biological weapons is stored.
"All these measures are being taken. After a news conference of Georgia’s former State Security Minister Igor Giorgadze, the State Duma Defense Committee has also reacted to this," Shamanov said. "The committee has asked agencies of the Russian Security Council and the Foreign Ministry to appeal to the UN, the OPCW and other agencies to organize an inspection of the Lugar center
with mandatory presence of Russian specialists," he said. "We will be certainly monitoring this issue," he stressed.
On Thursday, chief of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops, Major General Igor Kirillov, said that the United States had launched a vast military-biological program in the territories of several countries neighboring Russia.
According to Kirillov, the Defense Ministry’s specialists had scrutinized materials made public by Georgia’s former State Security Minister Igor Giorgadze about US activities underway at the Richard Lugar Public Health Research Center in Alekseyevka, near Georgia’s capital Tbilisi. They found out that the Lugar Center was merely a tiny element of the United States’ vast military-biological program. Large-scale activity has been launched in some countries neighboring Russia, where the Pentagon-controlled laboratories are functioning.
