Biological weapons and combat mosquitoes: how Russia increases the degree of escalation and blackmail in Ukraine

On June 19, the head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Army (RCBZ), Lieutenant General Igor Kirilov, announced an increase in the number of US military biolaboratories at a briefing. They can create artificial foci of particularly dangerous infectious diseases. According to him, studies conducted in the United States have a pronounced military-applied character. It is known about a patent for unmanned aerial vehicles that can deliver mosquitoes.

In particular, malaria, Western Nile fever. "A similar way of infection of the enemy would have a significant military effect," Kirilov said. However, the head of the RCBZ did not explain how mosquitoes should determine where their own, and where the enemy is to bite it. Despite the absurdity of such statements, Russian officials are not first allowed. For the first time, Russian representative Vasyl Nemenza said in October 2022.

Then the diplomat spoke about the documents received with descriptions of the projects of the study of the "collective event" by the possibility of distribution of dangerous infections through migrating birds, including high -pathogenic influenza, Newcastle disease, and bats, including capable infecting a person with plague, laptospirosis, and brucellosis coronaviruses and philoviruses that can be considered as a means of delivery.

Moreover, the website of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation even appeared a whole section, where anyone can get acquainted with the scanning of such documents. Already in February 2023, Kirilov reported that the United States was preparing provocations with the use of toxic substances, accusing the Russian Federation.

In turn, the US Department of State Ned Price stated that the Russian Federation is contrary to international obligations and the Convention on Biological Weapons continues to work on offensive biological weapons. "The use of biological weapons is forbidden by international conventions, but it can be argued that the work on its research is underway. No one is openly said, but it is so.

In the USSR, some of my classmates, graduates of the Kirov Military Medical Academy received distributions in similar laboratories . This was told decades after that, and he, without any details, " - says Focus military expert Oleg Starikov. In his opinion, such statements from officials of the Russian Federation should be seen as an element of information and psychological special operation.

In March 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in response to the words of American leader Joseph Biden, that he is a murderer, replied abusively: "Who is called and called. " Actually, this is the basic scrapo for Russian propaganda and information and psychological operations in Ukraine and the world. All in what the Kremlin accuses others, he pre -doing or plans to do.

As the focus has already told, one of the signs of use by Russia of any weapon of mass destruction is prolonged information training. This is done in order to hide your own actions or preparation for use, transfer attention to the other side, and provide yourself with a kind of alibi. Unlike nuclear weapons, the use of which will be fixed by the satellite during the seizure of nuclear charges from storage facilities, biological weapons are not tracked.

Russia has a powerful base for the development of biological weapons and combat poisonous substances that has inherited from the USSR. In what condition it is, this is another issue, but in recent decades it was the Kremlin who has fallen into international scandals. It is worth mentioning the poisoning of the former Russian FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko Polonius-210 in the United Kingdom in 2006. This isotope is rare and difficult to detect in the body.

Subsequently, there were attempts to poison with the help of a substance "Novic" by the former officer of GURF Sergey Skripal and his daughter, oppositionist Alexei Navalny. If we talk about the large -scale use of non -confessional weapons from the Russian Federation, it is worth mentioning the war in Syria. In 2013, the Bashar Assad regime, which had the support of the Kremlin, used the nerve gas "Zarin" in Guta. Then more than 1400 people were killed.

In two years, Moscow has launched an unconcealed military campaign in Syria, and since then several hundred chemical attacks have been recorded, including chlorine. The Kremlin has accused the opposition troops and Western special services in these crimes. Experts point out that, despite all the absurdity and delusion of Russia's statements about biological weapons in Ukraine, it is a signal of the threat of the likelihood of its use.

That is, it is an indirect threat of attack with chemical or biological weapons. According to the military analyst Petro Chernik, talking about "combat mosquitoes" have nothing to do with reality, because there is no such weapon that even theoretically, use them. Therefore, it is a more product for the domestic Russian consumer to raise the level of fear in Russian society, for re -enlightenment of the population around Putin.

However, he is convinced that the Russian Federation can use other types of biological weapons in Ukraine. "I think they are preparing and can apply some other type of biological weapons. The Kremlin has already convinced that no rules and principles of war in Ukraine are not adhering to," he says. According to military expert Dmitry Snegirev, Putin also added biological weapons to the systematic threats of nuclear weapons.

All this should be considered in a single set of script that is now being played by the Kremlin. "The Russian leadership has launched a multidimensional scenario - nuclear blackmail, artificial technogenic catastrophes and biological contamination of large areas. It is all a complex scenario, the so -called game in a long time. I note that undermining the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station is not a separate episode, but it is part of this scenario.

We need to add threats to the Zaporizhzhya NPP, the Crimean Titan, "he says focus. Snegirev notes that all this is done on the background of a powerful information campaign from peacekeeping initiatives in the Russian-Ukrainian war. "All this is part of one plan to increase the military-political degree. It is a favorite tactic of Putin's blackmail, which is primarily aimed at the EU and NATO to press Ukraine to start negotiations.

For Ukraine, this is the creation of the terminology of special services," the principle of Libra "or" forks "when none of the options is acceptable. In the case of negotiations, we will get a frozen conflict and the necessary pause for Putin. If we do nothing, the Russian Federation will go for further escalation, precisely using man -made disasters and probably biological infection territories, "he notes.