In the biological laboratory in Lviv, work was carried out with plague and anthrax bacteria, said Igor Kirillov, head of the troops for radiation, chemical and biological protection of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
“Analysis of acts of destruction shows the work with the pathogens of plague, anthrax and brucellosis in the Lviv biological laboratory, pathogens of diphtheria, salmonellosis and dysentery in laboratories in Kharkov and Poltava,” said a representative of the Moscow Region during a briefing, RIA Novosti reports.
According to him, only in Lviv, 232 containers with the causative agent of leptospirosis, 30 with tularemia, 10 with brucellosis, five with plague were destroyed. The nomenclature and excess number of biopathogens testify to the work carried out within the framework of military biological programs, Kirillov noted.