The United States has acknowledged working with Ukraine to prevent “biological material” found in Ukrainian research facilities fall into the hands of the Kremlin.
“We are now quite concerned that the Russian forces they may be looking to gain control“, assured the undersecretary for Political Affairs of the Department of State, Victoria Nuland, in an appearance before the Committee on Foreign Relations of the United States Senate.
During the hearing, Nuland denied that Ukraine had biological or chemical weaponsbut acknowledged that the US government is concerned that Russia could launch a biological attack using Ukrainian research facilities.
The response of the US Undersecretary for Political Affairs comes after the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, assured that Russia has obtained documents that prove that the Ukrainian biological laboratories located near the Russian borders work “in the development of biological weapons components“, as reported by the Russian agency ‘TASS’.
“We confirm the facts, discovered during the special military operation in Ukraine, of the emergency cleanup by the Kiev regime of traces of the military biological programcarried out by Kiev with funds from the United States Department of Defense,” said the minister of the Putin Government.
Zakharova has assured that they have obtained “documents of employees of Ukrainian biological laboratories on the emergency elimination of particularly dangerous pathogens of plague, anthrax, tularemia, cholera and other deadly diseases, carried out on February 24″: “In particular, we are talking about the order of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine on the prompt disposal of all stocks of dangerous pathogens, sent to all biological laboratories”, he added.
Source: Lasexta
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