Russian Ministry of Defense Claims It Has Evidence of U.S.-Funded 'Bioweapons Research Labs' in Ukraine

The order lists the "carrying out of emergency destruction of biological pathogenic agents which are used for... system and quality management of laboratories"...

The Russian media outlet RIA Novosti has released documents that the Russian Ministry of Defense points to as evidence that Ukraine has undertaken research in U.S.-funded biolabs that has the capability to be used for bioweapons.

Major General Igor Konashenkov, an official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, provided the information to journalists. Moscow said that the documents, allegedly originating from employees of Ukrainian biological laboratories, confirmed that "components of biological weapons were being developed in Ukraine, in close proximity to Russian territory," as reported by RIA Novosti. Watch:

"In the course of a special military operation, the facts of an emergency cleansing by the Kiev regime of traces of a military biological program being implemented in Ukraine, funded by the US Department of Defense, were uncovered," Konashenkov said.

“We have received documentation from employees of Ukrainian biological laboratories on the emergency destruction of especially dangerous pathogens on February 24 — the causative agents of plague, anthrax, tularemia, cholera and other deadly diseases,” Konashenkov claimed.

I'm a fluent Russian speaker and can verify what the general claimed. I also translated the Ukrainian language documents myself. The available documents do not support the Russian general's claims, but rather the U.S. embassy in Ukraine's stated mission of biological threat reduction.

The general did claim that the Ministry of Defense will bring forth more "analysis" to back up its biological weapons research claims.

The documents, with an exclusive translation via Becker News, follows below: