MOSCOW, May 27. /TASS/. Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) said back in 2017 that the United States may be using cooperation with Ukrainian biolaboratories to develop biological weapons, the Russian defense ministry said at a briefing on Friday, citing an SBU report found by Russian forces during the special operation in Ukraine.

"The activities of the American side as seen by domestic (Ukrainian - TASS) experts as geared to develop its own database on pathogen strains kept at Ukrainian facilities, <…> to study by US army medics of the efficiency of the use in concrete Ukrainian region of pathogens of extremely dangerous infections to develop or modernize new types of biological weapons of selective action (against a specific race, genotype, territory of birth or sojourn)," says the SBU report on the United States’ military political activities in Ukraine written back in 2017.

Chief of Russia’s radiation, chemical and biological protection force, Igor Kirillov, told the briefing that the SBU also pointed to possible biological threats over the systemic violations and the poor quality of works during the reconstruction of biolaboratories.