‘Components of Bioweapons were Being developed in Ukraine’: Russia

MOSCOW- The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has claimed that documents suggest “components of bioweapons were being developed in Ukraine.”

Speaking at a weekly briefing in Moscow, Maria Zakharova said the Russian armed forces received evidence of the development of biological weapon components by Ukraine under US guidance. She said that these claims were supported by the testimonies of the employees of Ukraine’s biological labs.

She stressed that such activities violate the Biological Weapons Convention, and that Russia may open a hearing on the issue.

The US leadership has to make public military biological programs that were implemented in Ukraine, she demanded.

“In a short time, the Ministry of Defense of the United States of America and the Administration of the President of the United States are obliged to inform the international community and make it official those military-biological programs that were implemented in Ukraine,” she stressed.

Zakharova also demanded clarity on whether the biological weapons taken out of the labs were destroyed or not.

“Who was in charge of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine for many years? Remember, right? From which country did this wonderful doctor come? Who headed the Ukrainian Ministry of Health? I remember very well — from the American continent.”

Earlier, US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland had confirmed that there are US-led biological research facilities in Ukraine.

Ukraine and the US are now trying to prevent these materials for biological weapons from falling into the hands of Russian forces, Zakharova claimed.