© Sputnik / Maksim BlinovState Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin. Should its territory be threatened, Russia will retaliate with "more powerful weapons," the Duma speaker has said.
The US may owe the world huge compensation for the damage caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the Russian State Duma, said on Wednesday. He cited remarks made by the chair of The Lancet commission on the disease,
who suggested the SARS-CoV-2 virus may have originated from an American research program.Speaking in Madrid last month, economist Jeffrey Sachs called the current situation "a mess" and blamed diminishing American leadership for it, identifying the pandemic as one of the US failures.
He said he was convinced that the virus "came out of US lab biotechnology" as opposed to evolving naturally, citing his experience with the authoritative British medical journal.Volodin asserted that the US government would not comment on Sachs' remarks because President Joe Biden is "afraid that the world will know the truth about the true culprit of the pandemic."
He added that the suffering of millions of people who contracted the virus, including the many who passed away, and the economic crisis caused by the pandemic were the US' responsibility. "The US must compensate the damage to all nations affected," he demanded.
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