Russia says it backs Trump's call for ban on biological weapons

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September 25, 2025 5:45 AM EDT

FILE PHOTO: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov attends a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic in the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia, Friday, May 9, 2025, during celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet v

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia supports a call by U.S. President Donald Trump for a comprehensive global ban on biological weapons, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.

Trump said in a speech to the United Nations on Tuesday that he was "calling on every nation to join us in ending the development of biological weapons once and for all". He proposed that Artificial Intelligence could be used to verify compliance.

Peskov said Russia welcomed the "very important call" by Trump, describing it as a brilliant initiative.

"Naturally, the Russian side is ready to participate in such a process of renunciation, a general renunciation of biological weapons, and, of course, it would be good to somehow formalise it, again at the international level," he said.

(Reporting by Dmitry Antonov, Writing by Maxim Rodionov and Mark Trevelyan, Editing by Timothy Heritage)


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