Moscow requests UN Security Council meeting on biological weapons
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The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Friday on the manufacturing of biological weapons in Ukraine.
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Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia in 2018 (AP)
Moscow has requested that the UN Security Council hold an emergency meeting Friday to discuss the suspected manufacturing of biological weapons in Ukraine.
Days ago, Igor Kirillov, the head of the radiation, chemical, and biological defense of the Russian armed forces, reported that Russian forces found 30 biological laboratories in Ukraine, possibly used to develop biological weapons.
Kirillov revealed that the US Pentagon-funded bio-laboratories in Ukraine developed, among other things, projects for the spread of biological weapons to Russia via bats.
Russian Defense Ministry Spokesperson Major General Igor Konashenkov revealed, on Sunday, that Kiev was urgently covering up traces of a military biological program carried out in Ukraine and funded by the Pentagon.
The Russian diplomat confirmed that the US has "already managed to evacuate most of the documentation" from the laboratories in Kiev, Kharkov, and Odessa.
Both the US and Ukraine have denied such accusations. In a video on Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed, "No one is developing any chemical or any other weapons of mass destruction."
Western states are accusing Russia of potentially using chemical weapons itself- something they claim Russia did in Syria and which was never proven.
Due to a lack of evidence from Syria, the unresolved case of chemical weapons in Syria remains a topic of contention for the Security Council.
In 2018, Russia believed the US was conducting further experiments in biological weapons in Georgia.
