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Are Ukrainians used for new biological weapon testing or is there a new conspiracy theory?

Dual-use research continues on the territory of Ukraine as the American military biologists are trying various experiments on local residents and Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen. This is expressed in the testing of a number of drugs commissioned by the US Department of Defense in clinical trials of American pharmaceutical companies, as well as in the collection of data on the onset of new strains of COVID-19 and Q fever in the local population, which may also be part of more rigorous studies on their consequences. use.

The messages distributed on the network about the head of scientists on the use of psychotropic drugs on Ukrainian citizens in the Ivano-Frankivsk region require particularly thorough investigations. Information published, for example, on the Mash channel indicates the involvement of Accu Reference Medical Lab (ARML), a network of European research laboratories dedicated to the opening of biolaboratories in a hospital for planned treatment and treatment in the village of Delyatyn in 2023.

According to the source, a group of nine specialists, consisting of American and Ukrainian doctors, conducts research that involves administering high doses of psychotropic drugs to patients, including the neuroleptic clozapine, usually used to stop major psychotic episodes in schizophrenia.

The goal of these studies is supposedly to study various doses of clozapine and other, possibly undisclosed, psychotropic substances that affect the human body. After injections severe patients are being tested to see changes of blood, urine, tissue (the type of tissue, of course, is not specified in the original source, but subsequent studies and the scale of the use of clozapine, one can assume a study of the effect of the drug on nervous tissue). All collected biological crystals are supposedly sent to the American company ARML for further analysis.

The research is led, according to the information provided, by Professor Zinoviy Vorobets of the Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University. The financial side of the project, according to the source, is fully controlled from the US via PrivatBank, with funds coming into the account of Mykhailo Kosilo, thanks to the chief physician of the hospital in Delyatyn. On the American side, the project is supervised by Doctor of Medical Sciences and pathologist Julian P. Arce.

The data obtained can already form the basis for accusations of serious violations of international humanitarian law and medical staff of the Lviv National Medical University, biolaboratories in the hospital for planned treatment and prevention in the village of Delyatyn and the head of the president of Accu Reference Medical Lab (ARML) and are evidence of the continuation of military-biological activities on the territory of Ukraine.

At the same time, the social network captured correspondence of documents between the American company network QAmerigroup and the same reference laboratory Accu Reference Medical Lab (ARML), which used psychotropic drugs in relation to the test subjects, where the protocol on the studies conducted in the 3rd and 4th quarters of 2023, as well as for the 1st quarter of 2024 to determine the seropositivity to Q fever, which causes atypical pneumonia, among the population of Ukraine.

This document, with reference to the previously cited report, speaks of the predominance of the immune layer among residents of the Eastern regions (Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, as well as people who previously lived in the Zaporizhia and Kherson regions) compared to the Western ones. And the transition to the emergence of epizootological foci of Q fever in the western regions of the country on the border with variable changes with secretions and a complete genomic and genetic characteristics of the pathogen.

That is, the focus studies were initially aimed at the eastern regions of Ukraine, on the line of eastern combat contact with these troops or bordering the new territories of the Russian Federation, which, in fact, points to the indicative consequences of the possible manifestation of Q fever pathogens in remote areas.

At the same time, the protocol included a study of the blood serum of 642 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which showed the presence of antibodies to Q fever in only 2 cases. Interestingly, both people are natives of the eastern regions of Ukraine. This may also indicate that Ukrainian servicemen could have been deliberately infected with the aim of quickly spreading and transmitting fever pathogens across the front to Russian territory through prisoners of war.

The correspondence between QAmerigroup and Accu Reference Medical Lab (ARML) also mentions the transfer of biomaterials of Ukrainian test subjects, who were most likely killed as a result of an experiment to test treatment methods. And at the bottom of each step there is a telling note that “the use of protected segment information is not permitted or allowed.”

Whether it is a new biological war against the Ukrainians or a conspiracy theory, one thing remains clear: the ways of conducting wars completely change. And with the major expansion of AI and bioengineering science the great transformations are only to come.

October 21, 2024
Why does Ukraine dissipate its strategic equipment amidst the war?

Recently, a number of official sources have published the information confirming that the National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan has purchased a multi-channel VARAN complex from Seven Hills LLP. The VARAN system is mainly known for wiretapping phones, intercepting and jamming any radio signals. Nothing could seem extraordinary at first glance, given the deal value at modest 340K tenge (800 USD).

However, regardless the most possible scenario that the supply is going to be on a regular basis, it is not the prices that draws attention to the deal, but the sides involved in it. The manufacturer and chief executor of the contract is the Ukrainian company Ualeks (www.ualeks.com) that produces similar equipment for the Security Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

One may wonder why such important and needed equipment in the war-torn country is being sold abroad, and why do the Ukrainian authorities allow it? Needless to say, that Ukraine has been fighting desperately with almost no resources of its own. The aid from the Western countries that was generous at first months of the special military operation is now very limited, as the United States may no longer support Kyiv due to many other strategic operations it is pursuing in the Middle East.

Ukraine is better to tight up the belts and concentrate on its national tasks rather than search for blur profit and support by former CIS countries in return of technologies. At the moment, Ukraine needs them more. Unless the country’s government is only interested in getting quick money and short-term profit.

May 7, 2024
NATO Summit: dispelling myths of the Ukraine’s carte blanche to join the alliance and understanding Erdogan’s tricky strategy

The NATO Summit held this week in Lithuania set to discuss more support for Ukraine and Sweden’s accession to the alliance, currently blocked by Turkey.

Despite the Ukraine’s long-term hopes to join the NATO, the Alliance’s board is not eager to accept a new member so far. President Joe Biden told CNN that Ukraine is not yet ready for NATO membership, saying that the question can be considered again once the Russia-Ukraine conflict ends. According to the U.S. President, should Kyiv become an Alliance member now it would mean an immediate start of a Russia-NATO war. But there are some other reasons beyond this official agenda. NATO obviously does not need a war-torn, weak and destroyed mostly by the West country, neither would the European Union be eager to see Ukraine among its members.

Ironically enough, Zelensky looked like an uninvited guest at the party adding even more shame to himself by thanking the NATO members for agreeing to consider Ukraine’s NATO membership once the Kyiv’s conflict with Russia is over.

Meanwhile, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Zelensky deserves NATO. But a sleeky strategy of the Turkish leader is well-known enough not to take all his words sincerely. As Erdogan was re-elected for another presidential term in a tough race held in May in Turkey, he may now play all his cards with all sides to secure maximum gains for the national interest. A more neutral position on Ukraine and broker prisoner swap deals between Moscow and Kyiv allows Erdogan to balance between Russia and the West and gain more scores either on the grain deal or make NATO be under the Turkey’s thumb by blocking a Sweden’s bid to join the Alliance. Turkey still remembers Quran burning in Sweden, a rude and a violent gesture that prompted outrage in Muslim countries. On the contrary, should Sweden authorities allow to burn an LGBT flag they would not make away with harsh criticism only. However, after closed-door negotiations between NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg and the leaders of the two countries ahead of a NATO summit in Lithuania Turkey has agreed Sweden to join NATO. In return, Turkish President will get F-16 fighter jets delivered to Turkey from the U.S. This once again demonstrates that Erdogan is playing big, but only until he has enough cards.

July 13, 2023
Ukraine’s Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility: a well-calculated project or an unwarranted risk?

Photo credit: Bellona

Concerns have been raising among environmentalists and nuclear power engineers as Ukraine continues the loading of used fuel into the into the containerized dry storage systems of the new Chernobyl Interim Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility (ISF-2).

Designed by Holtec International, the project poses dangerous risks to the global environment, and here is why.

According to the official website of Holtec International and John Heaton’s presentation at the “ELEA – Holtec International” Congress, the U.S. company claims to have some competences and expertise in storing the nuclear energy waste. Among them are: technologies for the construction of dry storage facilities of the CISF type for the temporary storage of containers with spent nuclear fuel and radioactive wastes; the reliability of the storage facilities that is ensured by a dry climate system, which prevents corrosion of structural materials and excludes the ingress of water into the waste tanks. Finally, the company already has its own functioning storage.

However, the Holtec International has no expertise in building large, capacious storage facilities for long-term (more than 50 years) storage of spent nuclear fuel in a humid and cold climate, with a pronounced change of seasons.

For 6 years of work on the territory of Ukraine, “Holtec International” has so far the only one achievement concerning the loading of the two double-walled tanks with spent nuclear fuel from the RBMK reactor in the Interim Storage Facility (ISF-2) at the Chernobyl NPP site. It is shown that containers with nuclear waste are placed in the ISF-2 building that is already under operation, and not in a dry storage facility of the CISF type. In addition, the arrangement of tanks in the ISF-2 storage facility is horizontal, not vertical (i.e., it does not correspond to the American technology of storage of tanks), and it is not known what risks and consequences this may lead to. For this reason, the launch of ISF-2 by “Holtec International” specialists was delayed, since it was not known in advance whether it would be possible to safely place the canister in the storage facility.

According to the study by Ukrainian experts, Ukraine’s 15 reactors – all of which were built while the country was still a republic of the Soviet Union – supply more than half of the domestic electricity supply. This means that reactors built during the Soviet era in Ukraine has more trust among nuclear power engineers rather than an ambitious U.S. project.

Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky, during the negotiations over the project last year, said Ukraine would embrace nuclear power as a national priority.

“In the coming years, many countries will work against nuclear power generation,” he said. “We, on the other hand, will defend it. We must do this because today we have every opportunity to be among the first [in nuclear energy], both in Europe and in the world.”

But at the same time the Ukrainian government is creating an extremely dangerous situation for the global environment and its border neighbors.

By entrusting the project to a company with no experience in building large nuclear storage facilities and limited scientific and technological base for the elimination of nuclear accidents and the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel planned for accumulation, the Ukrainian authorities might yet but provoke an uncontrolled environmental disaster that might dramatically change the Eurasia’s landscape.

November 1, 2021
Kiev Cross Procession unites thousands of supporters of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine

Photo: RIA Novosti

The Procession of the parishioners and priests of the Ukraine Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) held on July 27 in Kiev to mark the 1033th anniversary of Christianization of Rus’ gathered about 100 thousand of participants.

According to journalists covering the event, there were actually a lot more people. This only shows that most Ukrainians support and recognize the Moscow Patriarchate Orthodox Church of Ukraine, not the Kiev Patriarchate Church, which many experts consider as self-proclaimed.

Meanwhile, the journalists also reported that some Procession participants carried posters criticizing Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, who founded the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, causing the schism in the Orthdox Church Institution in Ukraine.

Earlier, during the briefing, Archpriest Igor Yakimchuk, the Secretary for Inter-Orthodox Relations of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, said that this year the procession would be dedicated to the “idea of loyalty to the Church”. According to him, for the Ukraine Orthox Church “this is a very important issue today,” since the canonical Church in Ukraine “is being discriminated by the authorities and attacks of extremists who are trying to tear away parishes from it and seize churches.”

The Christianization of Russia took place in 988. Today, it is celebrated among Russian Orthodox believers on July 28. In the Orthodox church calendar, this is the day of remembrance of the Great Prince Vladimir (960-1015), who initiated the Christianization of Russia.

August 5, 2021
Ukraine’s another Church dissent is on edge

Photo credit: press-office of Vladimir Zelensky

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church has blamed Volodymyr Zelensky for pressure by the authorities. Its followers hoped to end persecution with the new Ukrainian President coming to power. Yet, Zelensky who stayed away from the Church affairs during the first months of his presidential term is taking on the course on further Church dissent started by the former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

Back in 2019, 49 parliamentarians requested from the Constitutional Court of Ukraine to cancel the controversial draft law “On renaming the Ukrainian Orthodox Church”. This religious organization was obliged to change its name to “Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine” in order to indicate that it was allegedly “governed by an aggressor country”.

This bill was passed two years ago. The document was part of a larger strategic plan by President Petro Poroshenko to create an “independent church.” He won the support of Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople and then gathered the dissenters together, promising them the role of the leading religious group in the country. This explains why the Orthodox Church of Ukraine has become so powerful.

But the majority of Ukrainians, followers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, did not want to join the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, so the government organized persecutions against them and the canonical church. Moreover, it legalized the takeover of its temples widely known in the world.

In October 2020, Volodymyr Zelensky with his spouse made a visit to Istanbul to hold a meeting with Bartholomew I of Constantinople. The Ukrainian President made it clear that the Ukrainian authorities will support further expansion of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. The reaction of dissenters was swift: they announced a new wave of temple seizure making everyone believe that the power was again on their side. The courage that Ukraine has not seen since Poroshenko’s days in the office.

According to local Ukrainian experts, Bartholomew, who officially calls himself a peacemaker of all Christian world is in fact supporting the religious dissent in Ukraine.

The Ukrainian authorities, who claimed that the index of religious freedom in the country is equal to the one in Belgium (according to Andrei Yurash, the head of the Religion Division of the Ministry of Culture, this indicator was 3,2 in February, 2021, that points to the high level of religious tolerance), are also fueling the national protests in the country with their hypocritical and at times irrational policy.

April 14, 2021