The United Nations has no information about the US bioweapons program in Ukraine and the world organization has neither the mandate nor the capability to verify Russian information about such programs, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu said on Friday.

"The UN is not aware of such military programs. I would also like to note that the UN currently has no mandate or operational or technical capacity to investigate this information," she told the UN Security Council.

The Russian Defense Ministry had earlier made a presentation that revealed that the US had spent more than $200 million to fund biological laboratories in Ukraine that were involved in the US military-biological program and dealt with plague and anthrax pathogens, among other things. A network of more than 30 biological laboratories had been set up in Ukraine in the interests of the Pentagon, the Russian military said.