Iran Press/ Europe: During military conflicts in Ukraine, Russia revealed that Kyiv undertook an emergency cleansing of traces from the US army's biological program. Russian Ministry of Defense said that the US Department of Defense had been involved in operating and financing military biological programs.
US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland confirmed that there are biological research facilities in Ukraine during a speech at a hearing in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate of Congress.
The United States is now working to prevent them from falling under the control of the Russian military.
"We are now very concerned that the Russian military may be trying to take control of these biological objects," Nuland said.
The order of the Ukraine Ministry of Health for emergency cleansing of military biological traces dated March 6 spoke about the destruction of pathogens in biological laboratories in Poltava and Kharkiv.
The list included plague, anthrax, tularemia, cholera, and other deadly diseases. In total, according to Igor Kirillov, the head of the radiation, chemical, and biological protection troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Ministry of Defense, there were up to 30 laboratories on the territory of Ukraine fulfilling orders from the US Department of Defense.
Biolaboratories in Lviv were developing plague and anthrax pathogens, in Kharkiv and Poltava, they worked with diphtheria, dysentery, and salmonellosis pathogens.
According to the Ministry of Defense, more than 320 containers were destroyed in Lviv alone, in which pathogens of leptospirosis, tularemia, brucellosis, and plague were found.
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