Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Vasyl Nebenzya, said that the Russian military, participating in a “special operation”, discovered drones in Ukraine that can “spread mosquitoes infected with dangerous viruses”, Ukrainian Pravda reports.

The ambassador of the Russian Federation reported that in March Russian troops discovered “three drones equipped with 30-liter canisters that can be used to spray biological preparations” in the Kherson region.

A Russian official said that the United States has patented a drone capable of spreading mosquitoes infected with dangerous viruses.

“According to the description, such a drone carries a container with a large number of vector mosquitoes to a certain area and releases them,” Nebenzya said.

The representative of Russia at the UN claims that soldiers bitten by mosquitoes will be exposed to particularly dangerous diseases and will no longer be able to fight, so “disease can be a more valuable military tool than the most modern weapons and the most advanced military equipment.”

Nebenzya also reported that the Russian Federation received some documents about “the spread of dangerous infections through migratory birds, including highly pathogenic influenza and Newcastle disease, and bats, including those capable of infecting humans with plague, leptospirosis, brucellosis, as well as coronaviruses. and filoviruses”.

The head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak reacted ironically to the statements of the Russian official.

“The fight against mosquitoes, dirty bombs… It is already too late to treat the patients there. They must be returned to the ward called “Russia” and isolated,” Yermak wrote on his Telegram channel.