Claims To Have Documentary Evidence Of US, Russia Funded Bioexperiment: Biological Weapon Components Made In Ukraine

Chief of Russian Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Force Major General Igor Kirillov. (Source: Russian Ministry of Defense/Vadim Savitsky via TASS)

JAKARYA - Russia has again claimed to have evidence of the existence of a US-funded military-related biological laboratory in Ukraine, although Uncle Sam's country has denied this and the United Nations says there is no evidence of this allegation.

The Russian army has obtained documentary evidence confirming that the Pentagon is involved in financing a military biology project in Ukraine, said Major General Igor Kirillov, head of Russia's Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Forces.

"We believe that biological weapons components are being manufactured in Ukraine," Major General Kirillov was quoted as saying by TASS March 18.

He demonstrated a document dated March 6, 2015 confirming "the Pentagon's direct involvement in financing military biology experiments in Ukraine."

He further stressed that it is standard practice to fund US epidemiological and sanitary welfare projects in third countries, including in Africa and Asia, through national health care agencies.

Major General Kirilov previously revealed that a network of more than 30 biological laboratories was set up in Ukraine, which was contracted by the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).

According to Kirillov, on February 24, all these laboratories received orders from the Ministry of Health of Ukraine to completely dispose of the biological agents stored in these laboratories.

As previously reported, the activities of American biological laboratories are fraught with life-threatening dangers for large numbers of civilians, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a press conference after talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.

"I believe that the global community is fully aware and not yet fully aware of the unacceptableness of such an activity which is actually fraught with a deadly threat to a large number of civilians," said Foreign Minister Lavrov.

According to him, the unearthed facts show the colossal scope of US illegal activities to spread its military biology laboratories around the world.

"There are hundreds of such laboratories, including nearly 30 only in Ukraine alone. And many have been set up in a number of ex-Soviet countries precisely along the Russian border, also on the Chinese border, and on the borders of other countries. The countries that are there," he said.

The United States, meanwhile, has denied Russia's new accusations that Washington operates a biowarfare laboratory in Ukraine, calling the claims "ludicrous" and suggesting Moscow might lay the groundwork for using chemical or biological weapons.

"The Russian accusations are absurd, they're ridiculous and you know, in the words of my Irish Catholic grandfather, a bunch of malarkeys. It's nothing. This is classic Russian propaganda," Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said.

Separately, the United Nations says it has no evidence, Ukraine has a biological weapons program, while Washington and its allies accuse Russia of spreading unproven claims as an early possibility to launch its own biological or chemical attack.

Last week, Izumi Nakamitsu, UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, told the council the UN was "not aware" of a biological weapons program in Ukraine, which joins an international ban on such weapons, as did Russia and the United States along with 180 countries. other.