Russian Defense Ministry: American laboratories are implementing a project in which bats are considered as carriers of biological weapons

The commander of the Russian Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces, Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov, announced today that the American, Ukrainian and Georgian laboratories are implementing a project near the Russian borders in which bats are considered as carriers of biological weapons.

Sputnik news agency quoted Kirillov as saying in a press conference today that the US Department of Defense “The Pentagon” is also interested in insect vectors that can spread dangerous infectious diseases. The analysis of the received materials confirms the fact that more than 140 containers containing external parasites of bats “fleas and ticks” from the biological laboratory in Kharkov were carried out and transferred abroad.

Kirillov added: In addition, the “R781” project is interesting, as bats are carriers of potential agents for biological weapons, and among the project’s priorities is the study of bacterial and viral pathogens that can be transmitted from bats to humans, such as the causative agents of plague, leptospirosis and brucellosis, as well as coronaviruses and filamentous viruses.

Kirillov pointed out that among all the methods developed in the United States to destabilize the epidemiological situation, this method is one of the most reckless and irresponsible because it does not allow to further control the development of the situation, and this is confirmed by the course of the pandemic of the emerging coronavirus infection, which provokes, with its occurrence and characteristics, many inquiries in this respect.