What Has Russia's Late General Kirillov Said About West's Biological Activities in Africa?
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Major General Igor Kirillov, headed Russia's NBC defense troops since 2017. His career included involvement in developing the TOS-2 flamethrower system, used in the Ukraine conflict. General Kirillov also took part in measures to combat coronavirus infection and the creation of a Russian vaccine against COVID-19.
The head of the radiation, chemical and biological defense troops of the Russian Armed Forces, who was killed in a blast in Moscow on Tuesday, reported on the issues of biological security in Africa on several occasions.
The health ministry of one of the Central African countries was studying the possibility of the artificial spread of the Ebola virus in September 2022 by American military biologists, Kirillov told journalists in March 2023. One of the versions considered was "careless handling of pathogens by American military biologists who carried out work in this region," he said.
The Pentagon's biological warfare projects around the world give it access to potential biological weapons agents, Kirillov stated in June 2023. He noted that the US Navy Medical Research Center's subordinate laboratories, NAMRU (Naval Medical Research Unit), work with pathogens in North Africa, the Middle East, and South America.
Documents obtained during the special operation in Ukraine testify to the activities of the American company Metabiota in Africa in the interests of US government agencies, including the State Department, Kirillov reported in July 2023. He added that the available financial and scientific documentation indicated that the company operated in Kenya, Uganda and South Africa.
The US is moving its dual-use biological research to Africa, Kirillov said in October 2023. According to him, such activities were taking place in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Uganda and South Africa.
Earlier, the Russian Investigative Committee reported that as a result of the explosion in Moscow, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the head of the Troops of Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense of the Russian armed forces and his assistant were killed.
