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The Pentagon has acknowledged providing support over the past 20 years to 46 laboratories, health institutions and diagnostic centers in Ukraine, claiming that the cooperation was for "peaceful purposes."
The US Department of Defense published a report on the ministry's website today claiming that Washington has worked to "improve biological safety and security in Ukraine as well as monitor human and animal diseases and provide support to 46 Ukrainian laboratories, health facilities and institutions engaged in disease diagnosis over the past 20 years."
The military administration denied the existence of programs to create nuclear, biological or chemical weapons in Ukraine.
It is reported that earlier, the spokesman of the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, announced that during the special military operation the facts of an emergency concealment by Kyiv of the effects of a military biological program funded by the US Department of Defense were revealed.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, information was received from employees of Ukrainian biological laboratories about the emergency destruction of especially dangerous pathogens on February 24, including pathogens of plague, anthrax, cholera and other deadly diseases.
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