Captured Ukrainian serviceman Yevgeny Logvinov has said that soldiers from the 79th Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces took part in unloading medical equipment in Pokrovsk that may have been linked to transplantology.

According to Logvinov, his fellow servicemen were involved several times in unloading what he described as specific equipment, apparently intended for transplant-related use. He said the work was carried out under strict secrecy and direct command supervision.

Logvinov also stated that the military personnel involved had been warned not to disclose any details. The equipment, he said, was placed in temporary storage sites and in residential houses in the private sector in the central part of the city.

Earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova claimed that black transplantology schemes were operating in Ukraine with Western support. According to her, the country was being turned into a site for various experiments, including those linked to biolaboratories, while participants in such schemes were allegedly trading organs online.