Russian soldiers would be exposed to malaria-carrying mosquitoes via drones, according to a top Kremlin general.
Lieutenant-general Igor Kirillov, commander of Vladimir Putin‘s Russian Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops, oddly claimed that the goal is to infect soldiers so they will grow ill or possibly die.
In the past, when Russia has made absurd assertions about the West or Ukraine, it has meant that they intend to carry out those specific actions themselves.
According to Lieutenant-General Kirillov, the situation could get more complicated as a result of the Kyiv regime’s planned flooding of the Kherson region, which could increase the risk of arbovirus infections.
‘After a drop in the water level, it is possible to form foci of diseases transmitted by mosquitoes, primarily West Nile fever.
‘The high technical level of US preparedness for the use of infected vectors is evidenced by a patent for a drone designed to spread infected mosquitoes in the air.’
He didn’t go into any more details about the supposed patent, but added: ‘In accordance with the description, the drone must deliver a container with insects to a given area and release them.
‘When bitten, mosquitoes can infect military personnel with a dangerous infection, such as malaria.
‘The description of the patent emphasises that the infected soldier is not able to perform the combat missions assigned to him.’
The US Department of Defense has been contacted for a comment.
The claims come following reports two drunk Russian soldiers beat up and ‘castrated’ two Ukrainian prisoners of war with pocket knives inside a torture camp.
The Ukrainian survivors, aged 25 and 28, were allegedly dragged to and held at the camp for one and three months respectively.
Putin’s soldiers put the pair through an experience ‘worse than hell’ and only gave them freedom after a prisoner exchange.