Pentagon tied to biological weapons

Russia’s Defense Ministry said on March 24 that the Pentagon was directly involved in developing and financing biological weapons components in Ukraine.

Documents received from Ukrainian employees working at the laboratories in question have been studied by Russian experts and show that Ukrainian biological projects were directly developed and approved by the Pentagon, the ministry’s spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a news briefing in Moscow.

One of these projects was aimed at carrying out molecular analysis of particularly dangerous infections endemic in Ukraine and involved sampling pathogens from old animal burial sites to obtain new strains of anthrax.

Furthermore, a pharmaceutical company contracted by the United States’ defense establishment worked with the Ukrainian Defense Ministry to test unregistered medical drugs on Ukrainian service members, according to Konashenkov.