Text of Bioweapon Lab Report Given to OSCE May 19 by Alexander Lukashevich

Russia's Ministry of Defense has released much information on the illegal activities of the Outlaw US Empire's experimentation and use of bioweapons within Ukraine and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has made similar presentations before the UNSC. Until now, I refrained from writing anything on the topic because so many events are piling atop each other, and my aim is to inform not inundate. This presentation by Lukashevich is terse, concise and damning. The Outlaw US Empire has not only experimented illegally with and produced illegal toxins, it's actually deployed them against civilians within the Donbass Republics--all of which constitute major Crimes Against Humanity. These discoveries raise other very troubling questions about the many different outbreaks of a variety of pathogens since the 1990s, including the Covid-19 Pandemic. And the world must be informed!!! So, please spread this report far and wide on Telegram, VK and other non-NATO controlled social media. The examination into these Crimes Against Humanity is just beginning. I'll try to follow it as closely as I can along with the great mass of other important events.

What follows is the machine translation from Russian without any corrections or emphasis added by me:

Mr. Chairman,

During the special operation in Ukraine, new documentary evidence is being found that in the immediate vicinity of the Russian borders for several years, components of biological weapons were created – in violation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction. At the meeting of the Permanent Council on April 22, we have already touched upon the topic of military biological research conducted by the United States of America in Ukraine. They talked about specific projects, including experiments on people. Today we would like to draw attention to new circumstances that confirm the immediate threats posed by such activities to international security.

As we have already said, the network of biological laboratories operating under the auspices of the Pentagon covered a number of Ukrainian cities. These are more than 30 objects. As it turned out, one of the strongholds of this network was Mariupol, which was turned into a center for the collection and certification of cholera pathogens. The strains selected there were sent first to Kiev, and then to the United States. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, this activity has been carried out since 2014. In addition to cholera, the laboratories of Mariupol worked with extremely dangerous pathogens of tularemia and anthrax - this is evidenced by the act of destruction of pathogenic microoganosms of February 25, 2022. Part of this "collection" was not eliminated in time. From the biological laboratories found in the city, 124 pathogenic strains were seized. Among them, pathogens of diseases uncharacteristic for veterinary medicine were also found - typhoid fever, paratyphoid, gas gangrene.

Laboratory research for the organizers of these programs was scarce. They set up experiments on people. Here are examples of cynical experiments on civilians.

In 2020, in the village of Stenovoye of the Lugansk People's Republic, fake banknotes contaminated with a strain of tuberculosis resistant to anti-tuberculosis drugs were distributed among minors. In accordance with the conclusion of the Luhansk Republican Sanitary and Epidemiological Station, the banknotes were most likely contaminated by artificial means.

In this regard, information on the dispatch by Kiev to the eastern regions of UAVs equipped with equipment for spraying biological substances is of particular concern. There is information that in January of this year, Ukraine purchased more than 50 such devices through intermediaries. On March 9 of this year, three such drones, equipped with 30-liter tanks and a spray system, were discovered by the Russian military in the Kherson region. Ten more were seen at the end of April in the area of Kakhovka. Did they really intend to spray some kind of infection?

There are new details about the Pentagon's experiments on Ukrainian citizens in a psychiatric hospital near Kharkiv. The main category of experimental subjects was a group of male patients aged 40-60 years with a high stage of physical exhaustion. To hide their affiliation with the United States, experts who conducted biological research arrived through the territories of third countries. But there is still information about the participants of these programs. For example, regarding linda Oporto, a native of Florida, who was directly involved in such work.

There is reason to believe that such experiments have become part of the conscious policy of Washington and Kiev. The testimony of an official who in the past served in the security bodies of Ukraine confirms that in fact, on the territory of Ukraine for many years, a direct ban was imposed on any measures aimed at protecting the safety of Ukrainian citizens by its own state bodies when it came to US military biological laboratories. That is, in fact, all the activities that were carried out by the Americans on the territory of Ukraine were withdrawn to the prohibition zone for control from the point of view of compliance with the safety requirements of the Ukrainian citizens themselves. Such a conspiracy between the Ukrainian authorities and the US military structures once again confirms the fact of external management of Ukraine and its exploitation by the United States of America in its own interests.

What preliminary conclusions can be drawn from all these circumstances. Let's highlight the international legal aspect: at least there are signs that in recent years Washington and Kiev have not complied with the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons.

Work in the laboratories was carried out in an absolutely closed mode, pathogenic microorganisms - agents of biological weapons - were studied. In fact, Ukraine worked out possible methods and mechanisms for destabilizing the epidemiological situation in the region. This directly suggests that the US biological laboratories in Ukraine were not created to search for effective means of protection against dangerous diseases and broad international cooperation. Their main task is to collect biological materials and study for their own purposes the specifics of the spread of viruses and dangerous diseases. The United States has practically turned Ukraine into a testing ground for the development of biological weapons components and covert testing of new samples of pharmaceuticals. The facts already collected indicate that there is a threat to the whole world, and not only to Ukrainians and citizens of neighboring states. The threat is primarily due to the fact that such activities, in fact, were removed from the legal field and were not controlled by anyone. Not to mention the moral and ethical side of the issue, in which the inhabitants of Ukraine acted as a kind of "experimental biomaterial".

Along with the conduct of secret military-biological programs, the facts of providing both the United States and Ukraine with incomplete or unreliable information to international authorities have been established. All reports of Ukraine report the absence of national research and development programs in the field of biological protection. In addition, Ukraine in a number of cases did not provide information on outbreaks of infectious diseases. For example, in 2017, Ukrainian authorities did not report symptoms of botulism in Kiev and Kherson, as well as hepatitis A in Mykolaiv. In 2019, no mass signs of diphtheria were announced, although the spread of this disease was recorded in five regions. Ukraine did not inform about the participation of military personnel in the work of laboratories, as well as the facts of the transfer of biomaterials, the financing of facilities and programs by military departments.

The main question is how all these biological activities relate to the specific norms of the 1971 Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (BTWC). This key international document regulates this area of research. To date, 183 States have committed themselves not to develop, produce or stockpile biological weapons. At the same time, in the Preparatory Committee of the 9th Review Conference of the BTWC in Geneva in April of this year, the United States did not provide clear information about its biological programs in Ukraine. In the light of the available evidence of the excuse that the programme was purely peaceful, the international community was clearly insufficient. Of additional concern is Washington's line to counter the strengthening of the BTWC regime, including blocking the creation of a mechanism for verifying compliance with its provisions and the initiative to introduce a confidence-building measure in the form of reporting on military biological activities outside the national territory. It turns out that Washington still has a "stigma in a cannon"?

In Russia, a parliamentary commission has been created to investigate the activities of US biological laboratories in Ukraine, it is planned to establish a wide international information exchange on this topic. An analysis of the reports of the United States and Ukraine for five years on the implementation of the Convention on Biological Weapons is being carried out. Russia is forming a package of documents in order to launch an official international investigation of military-biological activities in Ukraine in the near future. In particular, Articles 5 and 6 of the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons will be used to investigate biological activities in Ukraine.

Article 5 of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention states, inter alia, that "States Parties to ... The Conventions undertake to consult and cooperate with one another in the determination of any questions which may arise with respect to the purpose or in connection with the fulfilment of the provisions of the Convention."

Article 6 of the BTWC states that "any State Party ... a Convention which states that another State Party is acting in violation of its obligations under the provisions of the Convention may lodge a complaint with the United Nations Security Council."

I want to state directly: the United States will no longer be able to hush up this situation, simply calling the revealed data "lies and propaganda", as we have heard more than once in this hall, Washington will respond to the substance – and not with empty slogans, but according to the revealed facts. Russia will insist on open discussions of this dangerous problem in relevant international bodies, including the UN Security Council, precisely because the US-led military-biological programs pose a global threat. If the Ukrainian regime is indifferent to the fate of the people living in the territory of present-day Ukraine, this does not mean that other countries of the world will remain indifferent to the issues of biological safety of their own citizens.

Thank you.