MOSCOW, April 6. /TASS/. The Ukrainian network of laboratories designed to conduct research and monitor the biological situation consists of 30 facilities in 14 populated locations, Igor Kirillov, the chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces of the Russian Armed Forces, said on Wednesday.

"A network of bio laboratories, comprising 30 biological facilities in 14 populated localities, has been set up on [Ukrainian] territory to conduct research and monitor the biological situation," Kirillov said at the UN Security Council Arria Formula meeting on the topic ‘Threats to international peace and security emanating from military biological activities in regions across the globe’.

Kirillov pointed out that it could be confirmed with the registration card signed by Viktor Polishchuk, Deputy State Secretary of Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers. The legal basis for its signing was the ‘Agreement Concerning Cooperation in the Area of Prevention of Proliferation of Technology, Pathogens and Expertise That Could Be Used in the Development of Biological Weapons’ signed by the US Department of Defense and Ukraine’s Health Ministry in 2005.

According to Kirillov, the registration card outlines a list of biological facilities and identifies the customer of the work as the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) of the US Department of Defense.