Label on the lab door. File photoWASHINGTON, Mar 11U.S. involvement in biolabs in Ukraine has been limited to occasional security assistance, State Department spokesman Ned Price said.
"The U.S. government does not have and does not operate biological laboratories in Ukraine. Dot. Just like we did in other countries around the world, experts sometimes helped Ukraine with laboratory safety issues. This was the end of the activity", Price said at a briefing for journalists.
Price stressed that Ukraine «fully complies» with the conventions on biological or chemical weapons, again accusing Russia of violating them. In Russia, such attacks are traditionally rejected. Earlier, US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said that there are objects of biological research in Ukraine. According to her, Kyiv and Washington are now working to prevent materials accumulated there from falling into the hands of Russian forces. In response, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that with these words it confirmed the participation of the Pentagon in military biological programs in Ukraine. Ukrainians. We were in line