"Biological weapons" in Ukraine: Russia calls for a UN investigation into the role of the United States

Europe 1 with AFP 9:26 p.m., October 27, 2022

Russia has asked the UN Security Council to launch an international investigation into Washington's involvement in the alleged development of biological weapons in Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Thursday.

"Russia had no choice but to submit a complaint to the President of the UN Security Council to request the launch of an international investigation" into "biological military activities of the United States on Ukrainian territory “, he says in a press release, specifying that this complaint was accompanied by an appropriate draft resolution.

Russia has accused the United States of funding a biological weapons program in Ukraine

Shortly after the start of its offensive in Ukraine in late February, Russia accused the United States of funding a biological weapons program in Ukraine, claiming to have found evidence to that effect in Ukrainian laboratories.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the aim of this research was to "create a mechanism for the stealthy spread of deadly pathogens".

Moscow has repeatedly made these accusations at meetings of the UN Security Council.

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For their part, both the United States and Ukraine have denied the existence of laboratories intended to produce biological weapons in the country.

Russia had already accused the United States in 2018 of secretly carrying out biological experiments in a laboratory in Georgia, another former Soviet republic which, like Ukraine, aims to join NATO and the EU.

To justify its offensive, Moscow also considered that Ukraine had the ambition to acquire nuclear weapons, an idea that it nevertheless voluntarily abandoned in the 1990s.