MOSCOW, June 10. /TASS/. The Pentagon’s claims of its allegedly peaceful nature of cooperation with the now-infamous Ukraine-based biolabs only confirm that the US was conducting a hazardous global military biological program in that East European country, Russian State Duma Deputy Speaker Irina Yarovaya who co-chairs a parliamentary commission investigating the operations of biological laboratories in Ukraine told TASS on Friday.

"The Pentagon’s information leaves no doubts that this is about the US’ dangerous global military biological project," she said. The lawmaker is confident that while hiding behind assertions of classified secret information, "the Pentagon created a military biological intelligence network and military biological testing grounds."

According to the legislator, by using viruses and pathogens the US "not only intends to exponentially increase the dominance of the dollar and the economic dependence of other countries, the Pentagon wants to directly control the lives of millions of people, eliminating entire nations and countries." "The mutual goal here is not to allow this plan to be implemented, it is deadly for the entire world," the Duma deputy speaker stressed.

On Thursday, the Pentagon published a fact sheet which mentions that over the past 20 years the US had been providing support to 46 various civilian laboratories, health facilities and disease diagnostic sites in Ukraine. Washington claims that this collaborative endeavor had 'peaceful' purposes.

Earlier, the State Duma and the Federation Council passed a resolution to conduct a parliamentary probe of these Ukraine-based biological laboratories as well as to create a joint commission for this investigation. The commission consists of 14 lawmakers and 14 senators and is co-chaired by Yarovaya and Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev.

As Yarovaya noted earlier, the result of the commission's work should be a dossier, which will be sent to President Putin, the Russian government and international organizations. According to her, the dossier will contain all the necessary evidence, where "all cause-and-effect links will have been established, all threats and challenges will have been identified, and all involved organizations, international legal entities, and officials will have been revealed.".