MOSCOW, June 19. /TASS/. Ukrainian biolabs were used to study the pathogens of plague, anthrax, tularemia, Marburg fever and Ebola, Lieutenant General Alexey Rtishchev, chief of the Russian army's Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Defense Troops, said at a briefing by the Defense Ministry on the analysis of documents published by the US national Intelligence service about the activities of biolabs in Ukraine.
According to him, American intelligence materials confirmed that biolabs in Ukraine were funded from the US state budget.
TASS has compiled the key statements of the chief of the Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Defense Troops.
Studying infections and diseases in Ukraine
Severe diseases that can be transmitted to humans and have pandemic potential were studied at the Kharkov Institute of Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine: "These include highly pathogenic avian influenza, as well as African and classical swine fever, and the Newcastle disease, which have pandemic potential."
