NEW YORK: Russia’s accusations implicating Washington in the development of biological weapons in Ukraine are “pure fabrications,” the US ambassador to the United Nations told the Security Council after Moscow filed a complaint with the UNSC.
“We all know these claims are pure fabrications brought forth without a shred of evidence,” Linda Thomas-Greenfield said.
“Still, I must take this opportunity to set the record straight. Ukraine does not have a biological weapons program,” she added.
“The United States does not have a biological weapons programme.”
Russia asks UN to probe ‘military-biological activities’ in Ukraine
Earlier, Russia had filed a complaint with the UN Security Council demanding an international investigation into the United States’ “military-biological activities” in Ukraine, the Russian foreign ministry said Thursday.
“The Russian Federation was left with no choice but to file a complaint with the Chairman of the UN Security Council to launch an international investigation” into “the military-biological activities of the United States in Ukraine,” according to the Russian foreign ministry statement.
The ministry said that during “the special military operation [in Ukraine] evidence and material that shed light on the true nature of the US military-biological activities on Ukrainian territory were obtained.”
Russia filed the complaint with a draft resolution to the Security Council, and compiled a 310-page document seen by AFP.
Shortly after the complaint, Ukrainian and American representatives to the UN both rejected accusations.
Ukrainian deputy ambassador to the UN Khrystyna Hayovyshyn said her country “has never ever developed, produced or stored — alone or together with someone else — biological or chemical weapons.”
Published in Dawn, October 29th, 2022