China News Service, March 10. According to the Russian Satellite News Agency and RIA Novosti, on the 10th local time, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the US has conducted experiments on bat coronavirus samples in a biological laboratory established and funded by the United States in Ukraine.
Data map: Researchers study Egyptian fruit bats in the laboratory of the Tanhat Museum of Natural History in Tel Aviv, Israel.
The Russian Defense Ministry also said that the United States had carried out a project in Ukraine to study the transfer of pathogens in migrating birds between Russia and Ukraine.
The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that it will publish a set of documents and inspection results received from Ukrainian biological laboratory staff in the near future.
Igor Kirillov, commander of the Russian army's radiation, chemical and biological protection force, said at a press conference on the 7th that since 2021, the US military has invested 11.8 million US dollars in an infectious disease research in the Ukrainian army.
The Russian side said that the obtained biological laboratory documents showed that on February 24, the day Russia launched the special military operation, the laboratory "urgently destroyed" the pathogens of plague, anthrax, tularemia, cholera and other deadly diseases.
Zakharova said the destruction of the pathogen was designed to cover up violations of the Biological Weapons Convention.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland admitted at a congressional hearing on the 8th that "Ukraine has biological research facilities" and "the U.S. side is cooperating with the Ukrainian side to prevent those research materials from falling into the hands of the Russian military."