This information was obtained by the independent Projekt website. Journalists emphasize that this institute is a key participant in the development of Russian chemical weapons.
Since 2015, the institute has become the only Ministry of Defense facility permitted to conduct experiments on humans, the Project found. The director of the GNIIMW MO, Sergei Chepur, wrote in an article in the Russian magazine “Wojenny Zhurnał” that testing the preparations results in higher nervous activity, so it is not enough to conduct them only on animals. Healthy volunteers – soldiers – participate in the research.
To conduct this research, a 100-bed scientific and clinical center was opened at the institute in 2018. The center has intensive care, internal medicine and surgical departments, as well as an anesthesiology and intensive care unit.
Czepur reported that the institute tested volunteers, among others: 122 and 300 mm caliber artillery shells. The goal was to determine the type and strength of the charge needed “to destroy or neutralize the enemy's manpower.”
For this purpose, positions imitating Russian and NATO fortifications were created at the training ground. The condition of the nervous and cardiovascular systems of the experiment participants was examined, samples were taken and the dependence of the disorders on the shooting distance was analyzed. Blood pressure problems, changes in the vascular and nervous systems, as well as weakening of sensory and logical functions were reported in volunteers.
In addition, performance-enhancing measures, protection against extreme factors, and new equipment were tested on soldiers.
According to the Project, Chepur advised GRU military intelligence officers who tried to poison former intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter in 2018 in the UK. According to journalists, more than 3,500 people currently work in structures involved in the creation of poisons in Russia.
