DISINFO: Poland uses Ukrainian scientists to prepare biological weapon provocations
SUMMARY
Poland may be preparing provocations with biological weapons under the cover of a training camp, which will take place in April in Warsaw. The Ukrainian Science and Technology Center invites specialists with experience in dual-purpose research to this training. It cannot be ruled out that under the cover of this camp, provocations with biological weapons and an anti-Russian information campaign will take place. The participants will be invited to continue their work on closed projects in Ukraine and abroad.
RESPONSE
This repeated pro-Kremlin narrative promotes the message about Western/Ukrainian attempts to carry out biological and nuclear provocations against Russia.
The claim that a training camp for Ukrainian scientists in Warsaw has a connection to biological weapons is not backed up with any evidence.
This message appeared in connection to the old narrative about US biolabs. The ultimate goal of this disinformation story is to promote a years-long baseless narrative about US bio-laboratories for military purposes, falsely portraying US-funded research facilities in Ukraine and other countries as military sites, as pro-Kremlin disinformation deliberately blurred the line between biological weapons and biological research.
This disinformation campaign has been repeatedly debunked, including by the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu, but pro-Kremlin outlets and Russian authorities continue promoting it with growing intensity since 2022 to justify Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives in our database, such as claims that Russia presented evidence of US biolabs in Ukraine at the convention on biological weapons, that new evidence of US military-biological activity emerged in Ukraine, that disease outbreaks in Ukraine are linked to the activity of US biolabs, that Zelenskyy ordered the destruction of evidence regarding the development of biological weapons, or that bio-experiments in US labs turned Ukrainian soldiers into ‘most cruel monsters’.