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Extraordinary Cattle Cull in Siberia
2026-03-24
[MetroUK] Mass cattle cull in Russia feared to be from bioweapons research plant ‘leak’

Veteran political scientist Dmitry Oreshkin warned there may be a sinister explanation, pointing to Vector State Research Centre of Virology and Biotechnology, at Koltsovo, in the Novosibirsk region, one of only two places in the world legally holding stocks of deadly smallpox.

Its vaults include Ebola, Marburg, and other lethal viruses. In the Cold War, Vector produced smallpox on an industrial scale, while also weaponising Marburg.

Oreshkin claimed that under Putin’s rule, ‘biotoxins or similar biologically aggressive compounds are being produced at the centre’.
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