However, he did not rule out that some countries may lead the development of a new generation of biological weapons.
“Currently, the United States has commissioned more than 200 biological laboratories around the world, including in the CIS, Ukraine, Georgia and Afghanistan. Their activities have little in common with peaceful science, ”said Patrushev.
According to the secretary of the Security Council of Russia, “the facts of conducting experiments on people in them” cause the greatest concern in this context.
In September 2018, the ex-minister of state security of Georgia, Igor Giorgadze, stated that he had received “from friends” documents, “primary research” of which shows that secret experiments could be conducted on the residents of the country in the laboratory around Tbilisi.
In December, the Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia, Grigory Karasin, said that Moscow was waiting for explanations from the United States and Georgia regarding the activities of the Lugar biological laboratory in the Georgian settlement of Alekseyevka.