The United States rejects Russia’s claim about biological weapons in Ukraine

The United States rejects Russia’s claim about biological weapons in Ukraine

War in Ukraine attack on car convoy in Zaporizhia

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Russia reported this Thursday that requested the UN Security Council to open an investigation into the alleged development of US biological weapons in Ukraine. “The Russian Federation I had no choice but to file a complaint to ask to open an investigation” into “biological-military activities of the United States in Ukraine”, The Foreign Ministry said in a statementreported the AFP news agency.

Shortly after the start of his offensive in the Ukraine at the end of FebruaryRussia accused the United States of having financed a biological weapons program in Ukraine and assured that he had found evidence in this regard in Ukrainian laboratories. According to the Russian Ministry of DefenseUkraine’s goal was “to create a mechanism for the stealthy spread of deadly pathogens.”

War in Ukraine Zaporizhia nuclear power plant

A Russian soldier guards the entrance to the Zaporizhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine.

A Russian soldier guards the entrance to the Zaporizhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine.

Photo: RTVE

Russia had already accused the United States in 2018 of carrying out secret biological experiments in Georgia, another former Soviet republic that, like Ukraine, aspires to join NATO and the European Union. To justify their military offensive, Russia also stated that Ukraine intended to equip itself with a nuclear weapon.despite the fact that this country had formally given up doing so in the 1990s.

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