DISINFO: The US carries out biological provocations and invests in targeting certain races
SUMMARY
There are provocations that took place, in the period from August to September 2023, using the bird flu virus in Lviv with the support of the United States. Their purpose is to accuse Russia of biological sabotage.
In 1999, the director of the CIA at the time, George Tenet, assigned the American military-industrial complex the task of developing bacteria and viruses that targeted specific races. This is what Americans have been doing for the past thirty years. They spend more than $2 billion annually on this.
RESPONSE
A recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about biological weapons. This claim has been neither counterbalanced nor critically challenged in the article.
The conspiracy theory about alleged US biolabs in countries bordering Russia aiming to encircle Moscow and spread infectious diseases is a part of a years-long disinformation campaign led by the Kremlin.
The claim is one of the many attempts to justify the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
There are no US biological warfare laboratories in Ukraine. Ukraine is one of the states cooperating in the US Department of Defence's Biological Threat Reduction Programme (BTRP): the goal of the BTRP is to safeguard global health by preventing and containing the outbreak of infectious diseases and establishing high international standards in biological security.
The US Department of State has stated that "The US does not own or operate any chemical or biological laboratories in Ukraine, it is in full compliance with its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention and Biological Weapons Convention. As we have said all along, Russia is inventing false pretexts in an attempt to justify its own horrific actions in Ukraine."
No independent researchers or documentarists have presented any credible evidence to suggest the presence of such chemical or biological laboratories for offensive purposes.
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