The United Nations on Friday said it had no evidence Ukraine had a biological weapons program while Washington and its allies accused Russia of spreading the unproven claim as a possible prelude to launching its own biological or chemical attacks.

Member countries called the claim “a lie” and “utter nonsense” and used the session to accuse Russia of deliberately targeting and killing hundreds of civilians in Ukraine, assertions that Russia denies in a 15-day offensive it calls “a special military operation.”

“We have serious concerns that Russia may be planning to use chemical or biological agents against the Ukrainian people,” Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. Ambassador to the UN said.

Russian Ambassador to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, criticized the response to the allegations saying “as we expected our western colleagues, first and foremost, neither one of them addressed the substance of the issue we put forward.”

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