Russia repeats a long-debunked claim that the U.S. developed bioweapons in Ukraine.
the head of the Russian Armed Forces’ Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops
“We have no doubt that the United States, under the guise of ensuring global biosafety, conducted dual-use research, including the creation of biological weapons components in the immediate vicinity of the Russian borders,” he said.There is no evidence the U.S. has ever developed or attempted to develop biological weapons near Russia’s borders.
The U.S. provided funding to help Ukraine upgrade its biolabs. But these labs are run by Ukrainians, subject to Ukrainian law and operate “just like other state or local public health and research laboratories around the world,” the U.S. Department of Defense said.
Russian scientists visited these facilities in Ukraine prior to Moscow’s 2022 invasion and reported no issues. That was demonstrated in March 2022, when Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya raised the specter of a U.S. biological weapons program in Ukraine before the U.N. Security Council.
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