State Duma deputy admits US involvement in the development of coronavirus

Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Mikhail Sheremet. Archival photoSIMFEROPOL, May 3.State Duma deputy from the Crimean region Mikhail Sheremet admitted that the coronavirus could have been developed as a biological weapon in US biolaboratories. Earlier, the Chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, said that Russian investigators managed to identify the circle of people involved in the development of biological weapons in Ukraine: among them are representatives of the US Department of Defense and US companies, and program funding exceeded $224 million.The embassy said that experts in the United States are studying data on biolaboratories»The United States is developing weapons of mass destruction in its biolaboratories, while not bearing any responsibility for its illegal actions. I admit that the coronavirus could be one of the developments of the United States, as a type of biological weapon, directed against humanity,» Sheremet told RIA Novosti. In his opinion, today the US authorities are a threat to the entire world community. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.