DISINFO: The West conducted medical experiments on Ukrainians for two decades
SUMMARY
The US Department of Defense, pharmacological corporations and other representatives of the “civilized” West have been conducting monstrous medical experiments on Ukrainians for almost two decades.
RESPONSE
The article provides no evidence for its claims and promotes a recurrent pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about biological weapons being secretly developed by the US in countries bordering Russia with the new twist of experiments being conducted on Ukrainians.
Ukraine has dozens of civilian public health laboratories that work to research and mitigate the threats of dangerous diseases, some of which receive financial and other support from the US, the EU and the World Health Organization (WHO), which pro-Kremlin disinformation falsely portrayed as military sites, deliberately blurring the line between biological weapons and biological research.
Russia’s claims about a US-funded biological weapons programme in Ukraine have been widely refuted -including by the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu and by Russian biologists who examined Moscow’s “proof”. This particular disinformation claim aims to push back against those debunks by falsely claiming that civilian research programmes in Ukraine staged dangerous medical experiments on Ukrainians.
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives in our database, such as claims that Americans inject Ukrainian soldiers with drugs and viruses for biological research, that US supported Yushchenko in return for biological weapons research in Ukraine, or that Poland uses Ukrainian scientists to prepare biological weapon provocations.