{"id":15502,"date":"2022-03-09T16:52:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T16:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/?p=15502"},"modified":"2022-03-09T16:14:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T16:14:22","slug":"us-admits-there-are-biological-facilities-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/us-admits-there-are-biological-facilities-in-ukraine","title":{"rendered":"US admits there are \u2018biological facilities\u2019 in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span><b>Washington.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland on Tuesday said Ukraine has biological research facilities adding that Washington working with Ukraine to prevent the facilities from falling into Russian forces\u2019 hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUkraine has biological research facilities which in fact we are quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces, may be seeking to gain control of, so we are working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach,\u201d Nuland said.<\/p>\n<p><b>Read:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Why does the US need biolabs at Russian borders?<\/p>\n<p>She was answering Republican Senator Marco Rubo (Florida) who wanted to know whether Ukraine has Chemical or biological weapons.<\/p>\n<p>But she said that she was 100 percent sure that if there&#8217;s a biological attack, then it would be by Russia. Ms Nuland was speaking during her testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clear that Russia will lose this conflict &#8211; it is only a matter of time,\u201d adding that Ukraine needs continued defensive support from the US and European allies and further economic sanctions against Russia could be coming.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Moscow claimed Ukrainian authorities had been destroying pathogens studied at 30 US-financed biolabs in the country. Kiev has denied developing bioweapons.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas on Tuesday the Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson urged the US relevant details as soon as possible\u201d regarding alleged US biological laboratories in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the data released by the US, it has 26 biological laboratories and other related facilities in Ukraine which has indeed attracted great attention,\u201d Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said at a news conference in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>He added: The US Department of Defense controls 336 biological laboratories in 30 countries around the world under the names of \u2018cooperating to reduce biosecurity risks and strengthening global public health,\u2019\u201d Zhao added<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\">Mozambique<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. Washington. US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland on Tuesday said Ukraine has biological research facilities adding that Washington working with Ukraine to prevent the facilities from falling into Russian forces\u2019 hands. \u201cUkraine has biological research facilities which in fact we are quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces, may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":15501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12,16],"tags":[233,281,283],"class_list":["post-15502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mozambique","tag-mozambique"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US admits there are \u2018biological facilities\u2019 in Ukraine - Mozambique<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Washington. 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