MOSCOW, April 7. /TASS/. The United States is searching for American bioweapons’ experts who worked in Ukraine and eventually fled the country, Chief of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov said on Friday.
"To escape responsibility for their participation in military-biological projects, many individuals left the territory of Ukraine," he said.
"To prevent possible leaks of information about the Pentagon’s illegal activities, the US administration is taking urgent measures to track them down and return them," Kirillov stated.
Chief of Russia's Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin told TASS in late February that The Russian Investigative Committee was looking into ten US citizens and some officials of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry in connection with their involvement in the creation of biological weapons on Ukrainian territory.
Last July, Kirillov presented a report, according to which a network of more than 30 biolaboratories, both research and sanitary and epidemiological ones, had been created on the Ukrainian territory.
According to the report, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) ordered the execution of this work. Per the Defense Ministry, the activity was carried out in three main directions: monitoring of the biological situation, selection and transfer of strains and biomaterials, including those obtained from servicemen, as well as research of potential bioweapons agents specific to the region.
The authors of the Russian Defense Ministry report said that under the pretext of testing treatment and prevention of coronavirus infection, several thousand serum samples from patients, "primarily of Slavic ethnic origin," were taken from Ukraine to the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the United States.