US spends big on military biological research in Ukraine: Russian military

Xinhua | Updated: 2022-04-15 10:58

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Ambassador Vasily Nebenzia, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, holds documents as speaks during the UN Security Council meeting discussing the Russian and Ukraine conflict at the United Nations Headquarters on March 11, 2022 in New York City. The UN Security Council met at Russia's request to discuss Russia's claim of US-supported chemical and biological weapon labs in Ukraine. [Photo/Agencies]

MOSCOW -- Washington has spent more than $350 million "in recent years alone" on projects of the Science and Technology Center in Ukraine (STCU), including on military biological programs, the Russian military said Thursday.

The STCU distributed grants for research in the interests of the Pentagon, including in the field of biological weapons, said Igor Kirillov, chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces of the Russian Armed Forces.

From 2014 to 2022, the STCU implemented more than 500 research projects in some post-Soviet countries, he said.

Many of them were aimed at studying potential agents of biological weapons and pathogens of economically significant infections, he added.

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