Russian Military Corroborates the 'Laptop from Hell'

On March 31, the chief of Russia’s radiation, chemical and biological protection force, Igor Kirillov, gave a news briefing about documents that had been seized by Russian forces in eastern Ukraine, including correspondences between Hunter Biden and figures involved in biological research in Ukraine, who were financed by his investment firm, Rosemont Seneca.  The documents revealed an intent to create a “Central Depository of Especially Dangerous Microorganisms in Kyiv,” according to Russian MoD spokesperson Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, as well as ways to distribute biological agents via drone. Kirillov showed signed contracts between US government agencies – Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), the Pentagon, the Department of State – and the Ukrainian Ministry of Health, as well as the specific facilities inside Ukraine. The Pentagon spent more than $30 million for biological research at just one Ukrainian facility, the Public Health Center of the Ministry of Health, according to the Russian military. By TASS NEWS AGENCY

The Russian Defense Ministry has made public a list of persons involved in creating components of biological weapons in Ukraine.

The chief of Russia’s radiation, chemical and biological protection force, Igor Kirillov, told a news briefing that one of the key figures was Robert Pope, the Director of the US Defense Department's Cooperative Threat Reduction Program at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (also known as the Nunn-Lugar program - TASS).

"Pope authored the idea of creating a central depository of high-threat pathogens in Kiev," Kirillov said.

He pointed out that "in his letter to Health Minister Ulana Suprun (a US citizen - TASS) Pope spoke highly of her activities. "In particular he emphasized her role in providing US specialists with access to Ukrainian biological facilities and the beginning of efforts to form a depository of microorganisms."

"Let me remind you what this kind of activity led to: according to the available evidence all pathogenic biomaterials were removed from the depository at the beginning of February 2022 and taken by a US military transport plane to the United States via Odessa," Kirillov said.

LIST OF OFFICIALS Kirillov said that Joanna Wintrol, the head of the DTRA office in Ukraine, was responsible for coordination of military biological projects in the country and for personnel selection.

"Under her guidance several projects (UP-4, UP-6 and UP-8) were implemented. They envisaged research into deadly pathogens, such as anthrax, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever and leptospirosis," he said.

Kirillov drew attention to the Ukrainian branch of the Black & Veatch company and its chief Lance Lippencott, the main contact person for Ukraine’s defense and health ministry officials. "The company has worked for the Pentagon since 2008 under projects for studying potentially hazardous bioagents, including project UP-1 for studying rickettsia and tick-borne encephalitis virus in arthropods in northwestern Ukraine. For the purpose of global control of the biological situation in the course of the UP-2 project the company introduced a system of remote monitoring of tularemia and anthrax at Ukrainian bio-facilities," Kirillov said.

He stressed that "Black and Veatch activities aroused many questions even from Ukrainian special services." In particular, the Kherson office of the Ukrainian security service SBU back in 2017 noted growing potential risks of a worsening in the epidemiological situation due to the DTRA’s intention to use the Black and Veatch company to establish control of Ukrainian laboratories studying the pathogens of particularly dangerous infections.

The supervisor of biomonitoring and information transfer, David Mustra, acted in close coordination with Metabiota - another contractor working for the Pentagon.

"Earlier, Mustra coordinated military-biological projects in Ukraine and Eastern Europe under the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program," Kirillov said.

He stressed that Metabiota was well-known for its research into forecasting outbreaks of infectious diseases. Also, the Pentagon used its services for modeling the epidemiological situation in the post-Soviet space.

"Metabiota’s representative in Ukraine was Mary Gutierrez - its vice-president and Hunter Biden’s confidant, which is confirmed by their correspondence," Kirillov said.

One of the key pieces of evidence was a letter from the Ukrainian company, Motor Sich to the  Turkish drone manufacturer Baykar Makina – makers of the Bayraktar TB2 and Akinci UAVs – dated December 15, 2021. The Ukrainians specifically asked if the drones could carry 20 liters of aerosolized payload to a range of 300 kilometers – putting them in range of a dozen major Russian cities and almost all of Belarus. “We are talking about the development by the Kiev regime of technical means of delivery and use of biological weapons with the possibility of their use against the Russian Federation,” said Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, commander of the Russian Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Forces. Kirillov also referenced a US patent (No. 8,967,029) for a mechanism to deploy aerosolized pathogens from a drone. The US response to a 2018 Russian inquiry about this patent did not deny its existence, but claimed that it technically did not violate Washington’s obligations under the treaties banning chemical and biological weapons, he pointed out. Russia’s MoD releases info on US involvement in Ukraine’s bioweapons research. © Photo : Russian Ministry of Defense. The obtained evidence indicates the direct involvement of the US Department of Defense and of its contractors in planning and implementing the Pentagon’s projects in Ukraine. We believe that the aforesaid executives are obliged to answer questions concerning the real purpose of these works," Kirillov said. TRANSCRIPT OF KIRILLOV VIDEO The incoming materials make it possible to trace the interaction pattern between US government agencies and Ukrainian biological objects. It's remarkable that structures close to the current US leadership, in particular the investment fund, Rosemont Seneca, headed by Hunter Biden are involved in the financing of these activities. The fund has significant financial resources in the amount of $2.4 billion. At the same time, the fund is closely connected to the main contractors of the US Department of Defense, including Metabiota, which, along with Black & Veatch is the main supplier of equipment for Pentagon biological laboratories around the world. The scale of the program is impressive. In addition to the DoD, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the George Soros Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are directly involved in its implementation. Scientific supervision is carried out by leading research organizations, including the US National Laboratory in Los Alamos, which develops nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project. All this activity is carried out under the full control of the Pentagon.