MOSCOW, June 16/ Sputnik Radio. The United States has recognized the Pentagon's connection with the work of biological laboratories on the territory of Ukraine and other countries of the former USSR, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
The agency pointed out that on June 9, an official statement on the biological activities of the United States in the post-Soviet space was published on the website of the American Defense Department. In the document, the US administration acknowledged the fact of financing 46 Ukrainian biolabs and the connection of the US Department of Defense with the Ukrainian Scientific and Technological Center.
At the same time, the ministry continued, the statement reflects the specifics of the implementation of the Nunn-Lugar joint threat reduction program in the post–Soviet space, one of the goals of which is to attract "thousands of former Soviet scientists specializing in biological weapons" to work, allegedly to "exclude the possibility of their cooperation with terrorist groups."
In addition, there are no answers to the questions posed by Russia in the explanations provided by the United States, the department noted.
Earlier, Sputnik radio reported from what period, according to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, experiments on mental patients were conducted in Ukraine.
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