Lt. Col. Oleg Ivannikov, an adviser to the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, said that the [U.S. operations with dangerous pathogens in Ukraine biolabs were being developed for military use.](https://aif.ru/society/karta-smerti-raskryty-strashnye-detali-o-sozdanii-virusov-na-ukraine
) “The Pentagon believes that promising methods of warfare won’t always be missiles and precision weapons,” Ivannikov said, reported June 14. “They will primarily be targeted biological weapons. This is what was being developed in Ukraine. It was aimed at identifying the enemy’s genome. The ultimate goal was to identify the gene present in the entire Russian military-political leadership and use the virus.”
The Ivannikov statements reiterated what Russia has been saying ever since they discovered the existence of such labs when they first gained control over the then-territory of Ukraine in the Donetsk region. Over and again, Lt. General Igor Kirillov, head of the Chemical, Biological and Nuclear Defense Troops of the Russian Federation who was assassinated by Ukrainian hired killers in Moscow, held numerous press conferences with documentation and letters they discovered during the course of the special military operation, noting how the pathogens were quickly removed from labs that would soon be under Russian control as Russian troops moved forward in the region.
EIR has covered aspects of these maneuvers, and history of the weaponization of bio-research. In December, 2024, Steven Starr, former Clinical Laboratory Science Program Director at the University of Missouri, briefed the International Peace Coalition on bio-warfare, and the significance of the assassination of Gen. Kirillov, which took place that month.
