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Russia’s military says it has acquired evidence showing that the United States has funded biological weapons research in Ukraine, over two weeks into the Russian special military operation in the country.
Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a televised briefing on Thursday that Russia’s Armed Forces had obtained documents from biological laboratories in Ukraine that had to do with the Pentagon financing research on developing a mechanism of the covert spread of deadly pathogens.
“The purpose of this and other Pentagon-funded biological research in Ukraine was to establish a mechanism for the stealthy spread of deadly pathogens,” he said, noting that US military-biological activities in Ukraine included the transfer of Ukrainians’ biomaterial abroad.
“Additionally, a special interest was caused by detailed information on the US implementing a project on Ukrainian soil on studying the transfer of pathogens by wild birds migrating between Ukraine and Russia, other countries,” Konashenkov said, as quoted by TASS.
The Russian top brass also said the obtained documents had revealed Americans in Ukraine in the current year “planned to conduct works on bird, bat and reptile pathogens subsequently proceeding to researching the possibility of them transmitting African swine fever and anthrax.”
Konashenkov said the US established and funded bio-laboratories in Ukraine “have been experimenting with bat coronavirus samples.” The Russian military official added that in the near future, another set of documents obtained from Ukrainian employees would be published and the results of their expert assessment would be presented.
Earlier, Igor Kirillov, the chief of the Russian army’s radiation, chemical and biological protection force, announced that a network of more than 30 biological labs had been established on the Ukrainian soil upon orders from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) of the US Department of Defense.
