MOSCOW, June 29. /TASS/. US biological laboratories’ activities in Ukraine in 2016 resulted in mass deaths across the country caused by swine flu, and a year later several Ukrainian cities were affected by hepatitis A outbreaks, Viktor Medvedchuk, leader of the Other Ukraine movement and former head of Ukraine’s banned Opposition Platform - For Life party, said on Monday.
Medvedchuk noted that after the ruling power in the country was changed following the 2014 state coup with [former] President Pyotr Poroshenko (designated in Russia as an extremist and terrorist), "the Ukrainian note on the termination of the deal [with the Pentagon] was withdrawn and the issue of biolabs was taken off the agenda."
"A new multi-year contract was signed in 2015. All projects were implemented under an agreement with the Pentagon (UP-2, UP-4, P-781, UP-6, UP-8, etc.), and the negative consequences continued in January 2016: at least 20 military servicemen died in the Kharkov [Region] from a flu-like virus, while more than 200 were hospitalized. Two months later, the death toll across the country reached 364, caused by swine flu A (H1N1 strain) pdm09, the same strain that had already led to the 2009 pandemic," he continued.
