The Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations, Vasily Benizia, confirmed that Russia has evidence of the presence of a network of 30 biological centers in Ukraine containing toxic and dangerous substances.
In his speech to the UN Security Council, he said, “Biological tests were conducted in Ukraine using migratory birds with the aim of transmitting diseases to humans,” noting that “the information we have confirms the existence of biological laboratories in Ukraine with the support of Washington.”
He added: “Biological experiments are carried out on the territory of Ukraine, and their results are sent to the United States.”
He continued, “The purpose of the Biological Weapons Convention was to end the threat posed by these weapons.”
In the meantime, the UN Security Council discussed the file of US laboratories and biological weapons in Ukraine at the request of Russia.
Russia accuses the Kyiv government of running, in cooperation with Washington, laboratories in Ukraine with the aim of producing biological weapons, which the two capitals deny.
In 2018, Russia accused the United States of secretly conducting biological experiments in a laboratory in Georgia.
During the monthly meeting of the UN Security Council on the chemical weapons used during the war in Syria, Washington and London seized the opportunity to raise the issue of Ukraine, after the United States and Britain began, since Wednesday, to make allegations that Russia may resort to the use of chemical weapons in Ukraine.
For its part, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed the capture of numbered birds released from biological laboratories in Ukraine in the Russian regions of Ivanovo and Voronezh.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov announced Thursday that the goal of US-funded biological research in Ukraine was to create a secret mechanism for spreading deadly pathogens.
In the same context, the Russian Ministry of Defense said, in a statement, that it became known details of the UP-4 project, which was implemented with the participation of laboratories in Kyiv, Kharkov and Odessa during the period up to 2020.
Earlier, Russia’s permanent representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Alexander Shulgin, announced that Moscow would soon send documents to the organization on provocations using chemical weapons in Ukraine.