Russia has asked the UN Security Council to launch an international investigation into Washington’s involvement in the alleged development of biological weapons in Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, AFP reports.

“Russia had no choice but to send a complaint to the head of the UN Security Council with a demand to open an international investigation” into “US military biological activities on the territory of Ukraine,” the statement said, adding that the complaint was accompanied. the relevant draft resolution.

Shortly after the offensive in Ukraine began in late February, Russia accused the US of funding Ukraine’s biological weapons program, claiming it had found evidence of it in Ukrainian laboratories.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the goal of the research was “to create a mechanism for the invisible spread of deadly pathogens.”

Moscow has repeatedly voiced these accusations at meetings of the UN Security Council.

For their part, both the USA and Ukraine deny the existence of laboratories for the production of biological weapons in the country.

In 2018, Russia already accused the US of secretly conducting biological experiments at a laboratory in Georgia, another former Soviet republic that, like Ukraine, has ambitions to join NATO and the EU.

To justify its offensive, Moscow also claimed that Ukraine had ambitions to acquire nuclear weapons, an idea it voluntarily abandoned in the 1990s.

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