DISINFO: The US is preparing bacteriological weapons to kill civilians
SUMMARY
The US is preparing various military developments in the field of biological weapons. Even more precisely - bacteriological weapons. Everyone understands that the Americans need this not for a real war, but to kill the civilian population, which most often turns out to be vulnerable and unprepared for bio-military attacks, and therefore defenseless.
After the start of the Special Military Operation against the fascist, neo-Bandera regime of Ukraine, various media outlets wrote and continue to write about how, in over 40 biological laboratories, Americans and local fascist “specialists” were diligently “developing something”.
RESPONSE
The claim is an attempt to advance the long-discredited narrative about US-funded bio laboratories. The conspiracy theory about alleged US Biolabs in countries bordering Russia is 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.
This disinformation has been repeatedly debunked, including by the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu and by Russian biologists who examined Moscow’s “proofs”, but pro-Kremlin outlets and Russian authorities continue promoting it with growing intensity.
There are dozens of civilian public health laboratories in Ukraine, but there is nothing sinister about their work. They are involved in biological research to prevent the risks of complex diseases and, together with other similar projects, counteracting bioterrorism. Pro-Kremlin disinformation falsely portrayed those as military sites, deliberately blurring the line between biological weapons and biological research. Some of these laboratories receive funding from the US, the EU, and the World Health Organization (WHO)
There are no US biological warfare laboratories in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, or Armenia. These countries are cooperating with 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.
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