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Is Russia developing new types of biological weapons?

2025-01-03 22:03:17Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Is Russia developing new types of biological weapons?
Is Russia developing new types of biological weapons?

Russian aggression against Ukraine, which has continued for almost three full years, has brought back to everyday world politics terms that were thought to have become a thing of the last two decades.

"Nuclear attacks," "chemical and biological weapons," "secret missiles, laboratories, and poisons" have become frequent topics of announcements from both the Kremlin and Washington and Brussels.

Since the beginning of the aggression, Putin himself has repeatedly stated as a "fact" that Western countries, primarily the US, have "secret biological laboratories inside Ukraine."

Although the spread and use – or at least the further production of biological and chemical weapons – was thought to have been stopped in 1992 with the signing of the international agreement “UNOG-CPBT” in 1992, and ratified in 2002 in its last revision, numerous laboratories around the world continued research into extremely dangerous viruses and bacteria, as well as animal diseases that could be transmitted to humans.

That the development and use of weapons of mass destruction are not only "prone" to great powers was also shown by the war in Syria, where Bashar Al-Assad's forces used various chemical weapons and nerve agents on at least several dozen occasions, such as the attacks on civilians in the Ghouta area in August 2013.

The most famous base where viruses, bacteria and various chemical substances are researched for military and defense purposes is undoubtedly the American “Fort Detrick” in the city of Frederick in the state of Maryland. Part of this institution is under the command of the “Department of Medical Research and Development”, and it is known that (at least until 2010) the Ebola and Smallpox viruses were researched there.

Although it was announced in 2019 that all biological research was being halted after a series of incidents and safety failures, it is very certain that some of it continued, or was transferred to other similar military facilities. Fort Detrick and the Pentagon itself have been accused in the past of conducting tests on people, and even the general population, without their knowledge or consent. Various insects, such as mosquitoes, were also used for this purpose.

It is also interesting that after the last major smallpox epidemic in the world, which occurred in the former Yugoslavia in 1972, it was decided at the World Health Organization and UN level that the remaining reserves of the virus for research could be stored in only two places in the world – at the Center for Infectious Disease Control in Atlanta, USA, and in the USSR, at the “Center for Biological Research and Virology” in the city of Koltsovo, Novosibirsk region, Siberia.

This center still exists today, and is one of the leading places in the entire Russian Federation for the study of viruses and infectious diseases. In mid-December 2019, a large explosion occurred there, and Russian authorities announced that it was a “pressurized gas cylinder and that there is no risk of the spread of virus samples.”

But it later turned out that the fire had engulfed a good part of the fifth floor of the six-story building (above ground). Specifically, the main research was conducted in an underground complex called “Vector”, in which the highest security measures, the fourth level (Biolevel-4), are applied. Employees wear special space suits, similar to those used by cosmonauts, with the so-called “positive pressure” – the pressure is higher inside the suit than outside, so in the event of an incident, pathogens, which are easily transmitted through the air, can be avoided from entering the suit and infecting the researchers.

It is known for certain that this Center is researching smallpox, anthrax, and Ebola viruses. According to international organizations, “Vector”, together with the American CDC, still stores large quantities of smallpox samples, although the disease itself is considered eradicated through vaccination programs.

"Vector" is now considered a civilian institution, while a similar center exists near Moscow. "Posad-6" (formerly "Zagorsk-6") is a kind of legend even within Russia itself. Since the 1960s, there have been various rumors about this institution, which suited the then KGB as a means of spreading disinformation towards the West.

During the Cold War, this Center researched zoonoses, specifically those animal diseases that can be transmitted to humans, with the potential for military use, of course. Although the then USSR was a signatory to the first convention on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in 1972, research continued at “Zagorsk-6”.

In mid-1992, the then-president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, officially acknowledged that such research was still being conducted, after which the name of the institution was changed to “Posad-6” (Oblast-6).

The US State Department and the Pentagon, as well as the intelligence community, are still of the opinion that “Russia has never stopped developing biological and chemical weapons to this day” and that it “accelerated research after the start of the aggression against Ukraine.” Because of this, the US imposed several rounds of sanctions together with the EU and its partners in the world.

In 2022, after the start of the Russian aggression, Ukrainian security services stated that “Posad-6 today has advanced programs for genetic research of viruses, as well as synthetic biology.” This, in practice, means that Russia is, at least partially, able to modify existing viruses and spread them in terms of armed action.

Although similar research exists in several other countries around the world, the experiences with the global coronavirus pandemic should be a clear warning of how it can threaten all of humanity. A few months ago, the US Congress published a final document on the origin of the Corona virus itself, in which it is stated that US intelligence services support the idea that the virus originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China, most likely due to non-compliance with biosafety procedures.


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