Russia has established a classified military facility, the «Centre for Experimental Physiology», on Lisy Island in the Vyshnyovolotsk Reservoir in the Tver Region, according to Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate, the complex is officially registered as a civilian research facility, but experiments involving dangerous viruses are being carried out there. The facility, according to intelligence reports, is under heavy security, including air defence systems.
Briefly about the main points
- The Main Intelligence Directorate has reported the existence of a classified Russian facility on Lisy Island.
- Intelligence reports indicate that experiments are being carried out with dangerous viruses.
- The complex formally states that it carries out civilian research.
- According to the Main Intelligence Directorate, the site is being protected, in particular by air defence systems.
- Open sources link the centre to the Central Scientific Research Institute of the Federal Medical Biological Agency of Russia.
Intelligence described the complex as a classified military facility
According to Ukrainian intelligence, the Russians are using the complex for more than just the stated civilian purposes. The Main Intelligence Directorate described the facility as a restricted military site and reported that security there had been stepped up.
Open data suggests a link between the centre and Russia’s FMBA
The website of the Centre for Strategic Planning of the Russian Federal Medical and Biological Agency features a page for the Centre for Experimental Physiology. In the job vacancies, which reflect data from the Russian employment system, the FMBA’s Centre for Strategic Planning listed an address on Lisy Island and was seeking a laboratory assistant to work with pathogenic biological agents of groups I–IV, a vivarium technician and a ship’s captain.
The FMBA’s Centre for Scientific and Technical Policy publicly announces research in the fields of biosafety, diagnosis and prevention of infectious diseases.
