INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Friday on alleged manufacture of biological weapons in Ukraine at the request of
Moscow, whose credibility on chemical weapons was questioned during a session on Syria.Russia on Thursday accused the United States of
funding research into the development of biological weapons in Ukraine, which has faced an assault by tens of thousands of Russian troops
weapons itself.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed Russia's allegations in a video address on Thursday, saying, "No one is
developing any chemical or any other weapons of mass destruction" in Ukraine
disinformation regarding Syria's repeated use of chemical weapons," said the deputy United States envoy to the UN, Richard Mills."The
recent web of lies that Russia has cast in an attempt to justify the premeditated and unjustified war it has undertaken against Ukraine,
counterpart, James Kariuki, denounced Moscow's attack on Ukraine and said the "parallels with Russian action in Syria are
disinformation raising its head in Ukraine."In 2018, Moscow accused the United States of secretly conducting biological weapons experiments
in a laboratory in Georgia, another former Soviet republic that, like Ukraine, has ambitions to join NATO and the European Union.The
Security Council meeting Friday is slated to begin at 11 am (1600 GMT).
