Posted: 17.06.2022 11:43:00

Russian Defence Ministry said US recognised Pentagon’s connection with biolabs in Ukraine

The United States recognised the connection between the Pentagon and biolaboratories in Ukraine and the former USSR – as stated by the Head of the Russian Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, RIA Novosti reports

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He drew attention to the fact that on June 9th, an official statement about the biological activities of the United States in the post-Soviet space was posted on the Pentagon website.

“In it, the US administration acknowledged the fact of financing 46 Ukrainian biolaboratories and the connection of the US Defence Department with the Ukrainian Science and Technology Centre,” underlined Igor Kirillov.

Moreover, he said that at the same time, it reflects the specifics of implementation of the Nunn-Lugar programme in the post-Soviet space, one of the goals of which was to involve ‘thousands of former Soviet scientists specialising in biological weapons’ allegedly to ‘exclude the possibility of their co-operation with terrorist formations’.

“Such an attempt by the American administration to whitewash its tarnished reputation turned, in fact, into a ‘prosecutor’s dream’: the document contains facts of the Pentagon's military and biological activities in Ukraine and other countries of the former Soviet Union and reveals the US Defence Department’s accomplices,” Igor Kirillov drew attention.