The UN said they could not verify the data on laboratories in Ukraine

The United Nations currently does not have the mandate and technical capability to investigate Russia's allegations that Ukraine has biological warfare programs, UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu said at a meeting of the UN Security Council.

“The UN is not aware of such military programs. I would also like to point out that the UN currently does not have the mandate or the operational or technical capability to verify this information,” Nakamitsu said.

She noted that the relevant instrument of international law in this case is the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, which prohibits "the development, production, acquisition, transfer, stockpiling and use of biological and toxin weapons."

Russia has requested a meeting of the UN Security Council on US military-biological activities in Ukraine after the Ministry of Defense reported on the discovery of evidence of the existence of laboratories where biological weapons were developed. The official representative of the department, Igor Konashenkov, claimed that their activities were funded by the Pentagon.