The United States has signaled a new concern in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The North American country has indicated its fear that the Russian forces “take control” of “biological research” facilities in Ukraine and seize sensitive materials.
“Ukraine has biological research facilities and we are quite concerned about the possibility that Russian forces will try to take control of them,” he said. Victoria Nuland, number three in United States diplomacy.
“We are working with the Ukrainians to prevent these research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces if they approach,” Nuland added.
In this regard, in recent days Republican Senator Marco Rubio has indicated that “Russian propaganda” has reported that there is a alleged “plan” in Ukraine to use “biological weapons” with NATO coordination.
Russia accuses the United States
Since the announcement of the military offensive on Ukraine and the subsequent invasion, Russia has denounced that a biological weapons program has been financed from the White House in the country governed by Zelenskya matter that Nuland has denied: “It is a classic Russian technique to blame others for what they plan to do themselves.”
According to Moscow, from the Pentagon more than 200 million dollars were allocated to the development of a network of more than 30 biological laboratories at the service of the US Department of Defense. In this sense, the spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashénkov, has asserted that the Ukrainian government, after the invasion on February 24, ordered the destruction of all evidence of especially dangerous pathogens of plague, anthrax, tularemia, cholera and other life-threatening diseases.
China asks the United States for clarification
In this ‘biological warfare’ being waged by Russia and the United States, China has also shown its concern and from the Foreign Ministry of the Asian country has requested that all information about the types of viruses that are stored and the research that has been carried out in these biological centers be made public. “The US has 336 biological laboratories in 30 countries under its control, 26 in Ukraine. It must be held accountable for its biological military activities and submit to multilateral verification”, they warn from the Foreign Ministry.