OREANDA-NEWS. The Chinese government calls on the United States to immediately disclose data on military biolaboratories located in Ukraine and the viruses that were being researched there. This was stated during a briefing by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, TASS reports.

According to him, 26 American laboratories and other such facilities operated on the territory of Ukraine.

“The United States, as the party that has the most information about the laboratories, should disclose relevant data as soon as possible, including about the viruses that were there and the nature of the research on them,” a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to conduct a military special operation in Ukraine in response to a request for help from the heads of the LPR and DPR. The decision to conduct the operation was the reason for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.

On the eve of the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that during a special military operation in Ukraine, facts were discovered of cleaning up the traces of a military biological program being implemented in the country, which was financed by the US Department of Defense. According to him, the documentation received from employees of Ukrainian biological laboratories confirms that “in Ukrainian biological laboratories, in close proximity to the territory of Russia, the development of biological weapons components was carried out.”

Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin instructed to check the information about the creation of biological weapons on the territory of Ukraine.