The Ministry of Defense commented on the explanations of the Pentagon on biolaboratories

Pentagon. File photoMOSCOW, June 16The «clarifications» of the Pentagon do not answer real questions, in fact, the United States is building up its military-biological potential, Ukraine has the role of a training ground, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces of the Russian Armed Forces, said on Thursday. According to him, on June 9 On the website of the Pentagon, an official statement was published on the biological activities of the United States in the territory of the post-Soviet space. In it, the US administration acknowledged the fact of financing 46 Ukrainian biological laboratories and the connection of the US Department of Defense with the Ukrainian Science and Technology Center (UNTC).The United States is training field epidemiologists in Ukraine, the Defense Ministry said. The Pentagon called the purpose of such cooperation to exclude the possibility of cooperation between biological weapons specialists from neighboring countries with «terrorist groups.» «What is the purpose of the biological research in Ukraine was attended by employees of the US military department, and the work was carried out in secrecy with limited access of Ukrainian specialists to information and premises?» — Kirillov said at a briefing. In addition, the head of the RKhBZ troops pointed to unknown reasons for the export from Ukraine of strains of pathogenic microorganisms — potential agents of biological weapons and biomaterials of Ukrainian citizens without clearly declared goals. He raised questions from Kirillov and that the United States and Ukraine are silent about the facts of cooperation in the military biological sphere in international reporting under the Biological Weapons Convention, and since 2001 the United States has been blocking the development of its verification mechanism. «Thus, the picture presented in the Pentagon statement is just a screen under which the United States operates by international agreements and continue to build up military biological potential. At the same time, Ukraine has been assigned the role of a testing ground for testing, collecting biological materials and studying the specifics of the spread of infectious diseases,» the general concluded.Ukrainian biological laboratories were part of the Pentagon system, the Defense Ministry said