“As part of the investigation of a criminal case on the development of biological weapons components in Ukraine, investigators of the Russian Investigative Committee will study information from the Russian Ministry of Defense on the military biological activities of other countries on the territory of Ukraine, including new data on the possible involvement of persons from among US citizens and Ukraine,” the Telegram statement said.

Earlier, Igor Kirillov, Chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces of the Russian Armed Forces, named new names of participants in American military biological programs, including representatives of state institutions and private companies in Ukraine.

According to him, the Ministry of Defense has information about more than a hundred Ukrainian participants in US bioprograms.