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Pentagon considers Russian reports of bio laboratories in Ukraine ‘false, absurd’ - report

Earlier, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov announced that, during the special military operation in Ukraine, Russian forces discovered facts of Kiev’s emergency cleanup of the military biological program, carried out in Ukraine with funding from the Department of Defense

LONDON, March 9. /TASS/. The Pentagon believes that the information presented by the Russian Defense Ministry regarding the presence of biological laboratories in Ukraine for development of a military biological program is "false and absurd," Reuters reported Wednesday.

During a briefing in Washington, a representative of the US Department of Defense claimed: "This absurd Russian misinformation is patently false."

Earlier, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov announced that, during the special military operation in Ukraine, Russian forces discovered facts of Kiev’s emergency cleanup of the military biological program, carried out in Ukraine with funding from the Department of Defense. According to the spokesman, employees of Ukrainian laboratories provided information on emergency disposal of particularly dangerous pathogens - plague, anthrax, tularemia, cholera and other deadly diseases - carried out on February 24. Later, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland confirmed the presence of biological research facilities in Ukraine.