Ukraine Hastily Destroyed Pentagon-Funded Biological Program: Kremlin

Russian forces have discovered that a Ukrainian military biological program funded by the Pentagon was hastily destroyed on February 24, the day Russian troops begain advancing into Ukraine.

“We have received documentation from employees of Ukrainian biological laboratories regarding the emergency destruction on February 24 of especially dangerous pathogens of plague, anthrax, tularemia, cholera and other deadly diseases, according to Russian MoD spokesperson Igor Konashenkov.

"In the course of the special military operation, evidence of the Kiev regime’s hasty measures to conceal any traces of the military biological program finance by the US Department of Defense in Ukraine has been revealed," he said.

Now the documents are being analyzed by Russian specialists of the troops of radiation, chemical and biological protection,” Konashenkov said at a briefing on Sunday.

According to Konashenkov, following the beginning of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, the Ukrainian health ministry issued an instruction to all biolaboratories to urgently destroy hazardous pathogens they had.

"Obviously, after the launch of the special military operations, Pentagon became afraid that secret biological experiments in Ukraine will be exposed. We will share the results of the analysis of the documents we have received in the near future. Some of them, in particular the Ukrainian health ministry’s instruction to destroy pathogens and certificates of completion from the Kharkov and Poltava biolaboratories we are publishing right now," he said.