China News Agency, Moscow, March 8 (Reporter Tian Bing) Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zakharova said on the 8th that during the special military operation in Ukraine, the Russian army found traces of Ukraine's destruction of the US military's military biological plan in Ukraine. fact.
The Russian side calls for strengthening the construction of relevant laws and systems.
Zakharova said that experts from Russia's radiation defense, chemical weapons and biological weapons units are currently conducting research and analysis on relevant documents.
However, it can already be concluded that the development of biological weapons components is carried out in the Ukrainian biological laboratory, which is immediately adjacent to Russian territory.
The urgent destruction of dangerous pathogenic material by Ukraine and the United States is to prevent the disclosure of the fact that they violated the Biological Weapons Convention.
Zakharova said that in order to prevent the occurrence of biological military activities that violate the provisions of the Convention, it is necessary to take decisive measures to strengthen the system construction of the Convention.
Russia is in favor of resuming work on a legally binding protocol and establishing an effective verification mechanism.
The protocol has been blocked by the United States since 2001.
Zakharova said that in order to strengthen the organizational foundation of the Convention, Russia is promoting an initiative that has gained wide international support to establish mobile medical and biological teams on the platform of the Convention to prevent and control various types of weapons in the event of the use of biological weapons. to provide assistance with epidemiological aspects of the source; establish a scientific advisory committee to analyze scientific and technological developments and provide relevant recommendations to countries.
In addition, as part of confidence-building measures, Russia proposes to include information on military-biological activities abroad in the annual reports submitted by States parties to the Convention.
On the 7th local time, Kirillov, commander of Russia's anti-radiation, anti-chemical and biological weapons forces, held a press conference and said that the United States has formed a network of more than 30 biological laboratories in Ukraine. It is divided into two categories: scientific research and health epidemiology laboratories.
The lab's mission was assigned by the U.S. Department of Defense's Office of Military Threat Reduction (DTRA).
According to Kirillov, these laboratories are mainly engaged in three areas: monitoring the biological situation in areas where NATO forces may be deployed; collecting and transporting strains of dangerous microorganisms to the United States; studying specific areas with natural lesions that can be transmitted to humans Potential biological weapons agent.
The Russian side confirmed through analysis of documents that the Ukrainian Ministry of Health issued an order to completely destroy the biological reagents in the laboratory from February 24, and requested the irreversible destruction of the reagents stored in the laboratory.
Evidence shows that everything needed to continue the military biological program has been transferred out of Ukraine.
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