He noted that one of the 17 laboratories of the ministry, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, located in Washington state, worked directly in Ukraine as part of a project called the Initiative to Prevent the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Kirillov said that the key person involved in the implementation of projects of the US Department of Energy on the territory of Ukraine was a former employee of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Professor Richard Weller.
According to him, he oversaw the implementation of Ukrainian projects to study diseases that can be transmitted from animal to human.
Kirillov added that these studies were conducted on the basis of the Kiev Institute of Veterinary Medicine, as well as the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine in Kharkiv.