Η U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland Speaking yesterday before a Senate committee and responding to a related question, he said that «Ukraine has biological research facilities about which we are deeply concerned that Russian forces may be seeking to take control of them. We are working with the Ukrainians to determine how to prevent any of these biological materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces».
Today, the Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that this statement by Nuland «not only confirms the existence of these laboratories … but provides the proof we needed—and now have—that the U.S. did everything it could to prevent these materials from falling into Russian hands. We don’t need to guess what kind of materials these are, and there’s nothing left to guess about.”. These are the documents that prove the United States' illegal and criminal activities on Ukrainian soil». Related posts have also been made on the Russian Foreign Ministry's social media accounts.
💬 #Zakharova: We confirm that the special military operation in Ukraine has revealed evidence that the Kyiv regime urgently destroyed traces of the military biological program it had implemented with funding from the U.S. @DeptofDefense. pic.twitter.com/xeeXGsGsdv
— MFA Russia 🇷🇺 (@mfa_russia) March 9, 2022
Zakharova recalled that Russia had offered to cooperate with the U.S. on biological experiments, but their laboratories in the territories of former Soviet countries are classified and were created, as she said, to pose additional challenges and threats to Russia. «We were ready to send experts and delegations comprising representatives from various agencies. All of this They were shrouded in mystery and kept secret … because all of this was not a response to challenges and threats, but rather an effort to create challenges and threats against our country and our people», Zakharova said. «If this isn't stopped now, it will spiral out of control in the future.».
The Russian news agency TASS, which reported the above, also quotes a statement made earlier by the Head of the military force responsible for protection against radiological, biological, and chemical threats, Igor Kirilov. As he mentioned, there is a a network of more than 30 biological laboratories established on Ukrainian territory on the orders of a division of the U.S. Department of Defense (Defense Threat Reduction Agency – DTRA). According to him, on February 24, when the Russian intervention began, everyone was ordered to destroy the biological materials that were there.
