UNSC. File photoUN, Oct 28The United States did not provide Russia with an answer to the question of why the military department, the Pentagon, oversaw the biological program in Ukraine, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation Vasily Nebenzya said at a meeting of the UN Security Council. On Thursday, a meeting of the Security Council on the problem of US military biological activities in Ukraine was held. The UN representative stated that the organization has neither the mandate nor the technical capacity to verify this information. US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield accused Moscow of disinformation. According to her, neither the United States nor Ukraine has biological weapons programs and there are no biological weapons laboratories in Ukraine supported by Washington. According to her, the United States provided support to Ukraine in health research.Nebenzya: Russia hopes for a speedy verification of violations by Ukraine and the United States of the BTWC «Today they are trying to convince us that cooperation between the United States and Ukraine in the biological sphere is exclusively peaceful. But answer a simple question: why is it supervised by the military department on the American side — the Pentagon and its numerous contractors? If you really studied the selection of documents provided by us, then you would see copies of agreements and acts for the performance of work, which were signed by representatives of the military departments from both sides, «Nebenzya said in turn. «What humanitarian cooperation can the Ministry of Defense engage in? We did not even hear an answer to this question,» he added. According to him, Moscow was «touched» by the thesis of the US Permanent Representative that the denial of this by the Office for Disarmament Affairs of the UN Secretariat confirms the absence of US military biological activity in Ukraine. 
Nebenzya spoke about Ukrainian sabotage in Russia «Do you really think we are so naive, assuming that the Pentagon will inform the UN Secretariat's Department for Disarmament Affairs about its secret military biological programs in Ukraine?» Nebenzya asked. In March, US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland was asked at a Senate hearing whether there were chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine. She replied: “Ukraine has biological research facilities. We are concerned that Russian troops may try to take control of them, so we are working with the Ukrainians on how to prevent any of these research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces.” State Duma deputies in In an appeal to the UN and PACE, they stated that Nuland confirmed the fact that biolaboratories in Ukraine are working in the interests of the United States. The Russian authorities have repeatedly called for an investigation into the activities of US biological laboratories in Ukraine. The head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces (RCBZ) of the RF Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, stated that a network of more than 30 biological laboratories had been formed in Ukraine, working in the interests of the Pentagon. According to him, everything for the continuation of the US military biological program was removed from Ukraine after the start of the Russian special military operation. expand the competence of the UN Secretariat
