During the briefing, Igor Kirillov, head of the radiation, chemical and biological defense forces, said that there was a network of 30 biological laboratories in Ukraine that worked on the order of the Pentagon.
According to him, it was, among other things, the collection and export to the United States of strains of dangerous microorganisms and the study of potential agents of biological weapons.
"Analysis of acts of destruction shows the work with the pathogens of plague, anthrax and brucellosis in the Lviv biological laboratory, pathogens of diphtheria, salmonellosis and dysentery in laboratories in Kharkov and Poltava," Kirillov said.
In turn, the German Defense Ministry conducted a study of the pathogens of the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, leptospirosis, meningitis, hantaviruses on the territory of Ukraine, he added.
The media reported on the destruction of documents of the nuclear program of Ukraine Politics