MOSCOW, January 15. /TASS/. The US is exerting pressure on its allies to reduce political damage from exposure of its military biological activity in Ukraine, Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov said.

"To reduce political damage from exposure from the Russian side, the US administration is attempting to apply pressure on its allies and developing economies," Kirillov said.

Initiatives promoted by the US are aimed at substituting provisions of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and other norms of international law by own "rules" developed in the US interests, supported by the collective West and imposed upon third parties for performance, he added.