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Retired CIA officer Dan Hoffman warned that Russia's suppression of information regarding a suspected biological incident at a Siberian plague research institute follows the same secrecy playbook used during the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Hoffman told Fox News Digital that such suppressed incidents add to a compounding list of systemic failures for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is facing a faltering economy and a stalled war in Ukraine.
The incident centers on the death of Darya Shipilova, a 28-year-old employee at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East.
Russian health authorities stated that Shipilova died after being diagnosed with pneumonia of "unknown" origin.
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