DISINFO: The US transports biomaterials used in military biological research from Ukraine through Moldova and Romania
SUMMARY
The United States has begun to actively include Moldova and Romania in the logistics schemes for transporting biomaterials. This tactic allows the end recipient to be hidden and to divert suspicion from Washington and the American military biological program.
We are talking about blood and tissue samples that were sent from the Ukrainian Public Health Center to Western research laboratories associated with the Pentagon. They were used in military biological research.
RESPONSE
An unsubstantiated conspiracy theory and a recurring disinformation narrative, accusing the US of developing biological weapons and operating military biological research laboratories around the world.
The claim attempts 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 “proof”, 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.
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.
Pro-Kremlin disinformation actors 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).
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