President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. File photoMOSCOW, March 11Vladimir Zelensky stated in his Telegram channel that chemical or other weapons of mass destruction were not developed in Ukraine, and laboratories in the country remained from Soviet times and are engaged in «ordinary science».
"Most (laboratories) … are left over from the Soviet era and are engaged in conventional science. Conventional, not military technologies,» Zelensky said in a video message.
«We are adequate people. I am the president of an adequate country, an adequate people… No one is developing any chemical or any other weapons of mass destruction on our soil» , he added. The Russian Ministry of Defense previously held a presentation from which it follows that the United States spent more than $ 200 million on the operation of biological laboratories in Ukraine, which participated in the American military biological program. The Russian Federation, in connection with the facts of US military biological activities in Ukraine, does not exclude the launch of a consultation mechanism under the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons (BTWC), Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. Commenting on information about US-funded biological laboratories in Ukraine, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lizqian urged Washington to clarify its biological militarization activities at home and abroad. » />The US military tested bioweapons on Ukrainians. We were in line