Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky Denies Russia’s Chemical Weapons Cost, Says I am Father Of Two

Zelensky warned Russia that use of organic weapons in opposition to Ukraine will invite “extreme sanctions”.

New Delhi:

No chemical weapon or some other weapons of mass destruction Ukraine have been developed in Ukraine, the nation’s President mentioned at present, warning Russia that using organic weapons in opposition to his nation will invite the “most extreme sanctions”.

President Volodymyr Zelensky response got here after Russia accused his nation of conducting analysis into the event of organic weapons.

“I’m the President of an sufficient nation, an sufficient nation. And the daddy of two kids. And no chemical or some other weapons of mass destruction have been developed on my land,” Zelensky mentioned in a video posted on Friday morning.

“The entire world is aware of that. You realize that. And if Russia do one thing like that in opposition to us, it’s going to get essentially the most extreme sanctions response,” he mentioned.

In a televised briefing on Thursday, Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov had mentioned that the aim of the analysis – which it mentioned was funded by the US – was to determine a mechanism for the stealthy unfold of lethal pathogens.”

Konashenkov claimed the ministry had obtained paperwork detailing US military-biological actions in Ukraine, together with on the switch of Ukrainians’ biomaterial overseas.

He mentioned Washington “deliberate to hold out analysis on hen, bat and reptile pathogens”, in addition to on African swine fever and anthrax. 

“Bio-laboratories arrange and funded in Ukraine have been experimenting with bat coronavirus samples,” Konashenkov added.

Russian Overseas Minister Sergei Lavrov in a press convention later Thursday following talks along with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba repeated the declare, saying Washington had funded improvement of organic weapons in Ukraine.

“The Individuals carried out this work in full secrecy. Identical to how they work in different former Soviet states, creating their military-biological labs proper alongside Russia’s borders,” he mentioned.

Each Washington and Kyiv have denied the existence of laboratories meant to provide organic weapons within the nation, which has confronted a Russian assault by tens of hundreds of troops since February 24.

Russia has repeatedly accused the US of secretly finishing up organic experiments in a lab in Georgia, one other former Soviet republic, which like Ukraine goals to affix NATO and the European Union.

(With inputs from AFP)