Leonid Slutsky

Ukraianian defense minister Oleksii Reznikov (left) with Russian negotiators Vladimir Medinsky (center), and Leonid Slutsky (right) in Belarus for the 2022 peace negotiations.

Leonid Slutsky is a Russian politician, Deputy in the Russian State Duma and chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Slutsky unsuccessfully ran for President of the Russian Federation in the 2024 Russian Presidential election as the nominee of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia.

US biological weapons labs in Ukraine

See also: U.S. funded biological labs abroad

On March 22, 2022, the Russian state Duma established a parliamentary commission to investigate the American biological laboratories operating in Ukraine. Deputy Leonid Slutsky, who is a member of the committee, issued a statement:

Russian military reported it had identified 30 sites where biological research with pathogens had been occurring under the direction of the Pentagon; Victoria Nuland later confirmed 46 locations.

Metabiota, a company financed by Hunter Biden's Rosemont Seneca partnership with the CCP, receives the lion's share of US Defense Department funding for its Ukrainian bio labs.

Russia will continue to raise the issue of the need to investigate US activities in the field of biological research, including in the UN structures. Obviously, we can talk about a direct violation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons (BTWC). What is known today from the materials that were discovered during the special military operation in Ukraine? The biolaboratories were formally under the jurisdiction of the Central Sanitary and Epidemiological Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, but Americans were placed as curators everywhere. In fact, pathogens of dangerous diseases were tested on the local genotype (Slavic). At the same time, pathogens were created that, most likely, they tried to make resistant to commercial vaccines or antibiotics. There were about 30 such laboratories in total, 13 of them had a very high level of protection. Against this background, according to experts, in recent years Ukraine has turned into some incomprehensible hotbed of old and new diseases. For example, we all remember that measles was defeated in the USSR. But in 2005-2007, measles returned to Ukraine, moreover, in the form of an epidemic, and until 2021 it was present as a significant disease. WHO even named Ukraine the capital of measles. A similar situation was with cholera. The last cases of cholera were registered in the country in the 90s, but in 2011 33 people fell ill with cholera in Mariupol, in 2014 there were already 800 people, in 2015-2017 more than 100 cases were recorded annually in Nikolaev. Further more interesting: in 2009 Ternopil, 450 Ukrainians suffered from a virus that causes hemorrhagic pneumonia, which has never been present in the north of Eurasia, this virus is characteristically noted in Equatorial Africa. How he got there is a big question. I specifically cite this data in detail in order to show the scope of everything that existed in the immediate vicinity of the territory of Russia. And it’s really scary.

NATO provocations

In 2025 Russian authorities responded that any military assault on Kaliningrad would be treated unequivocally as an attack on the Russian Federation itself. Leonid Slutsky, chair of the Russian parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee (a senior figure who often reflects Foreign Ministry thinking), explicitly stated:

An attack on the Kaliningrad Region will mean an attack on Russia, with all due retaliatory measures stipulated, among other things, by its nuclear doctrine…. The American general should consider this before making such declarations.