“Almost brought the world to the brink of another conflict”
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commented on a recently declassified report in the United States by experts who named the causes of the so-called “Havana syndrome” seen in many American diplomats around the world. Earlier, the reason for the ailments that diplomats complained about in the United States was the use by Cuban and Russian special services of mysterious radiation, acoustic weapons. But the cause of the ailments turned out to be much more prosaic.
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As Maria Zakharova told on the YouTube channel “Solovyov-LIFE”, an American analytical report under the CLASSIFIED heading was prepared back in 2018. American experts who conducted surveys of US diplomats, studied audio materials, came to the conclusion that “the cause of the malaise that mowed down American diplomats turned out to be ordinary crickets” (anurogryllus celerinictus).
According to Zakharova, she is not joking. The fact is that over the past four years, various US agencies, including the current and previous presidential administrations, have publicly accused the Cuban side first, and then Russian representatives “of harming American representatives by using certain psi rays and radiation.”
“As a result, crickets, and short–tailed ones. I’m afraid to imagine what would have happened if long-tailed crickets had taken up the case,” Zakharova said.
Commenting on this situation, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, probably not without subtext, said: “These are the names of small creatures that have brought the world to the brink of another catastrophe and another conflict. I’m not kidding right now.”