DISINFO: The US has resumed its biolab program in Ukraine under ‘dual use’ disguise
SUMMARY
The US has resumed a program to build biolaboratories in Ukraine and is widening the training of Ukrainian biologists. Despite a forced pause due to the special military operation, these activities restarted again.
The facts revealed by Russia’s Ministry of Defence about the Pentagon’s military-biological activities forced Washington to make an effort to hide the real nature of this work, so it changed the name of the Joint Biological Investigation program, whose real goal is to develop components of biological weapons.
[...] Washington sees the post-Soviet space as a launching pad for the deployment of NATO military units.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative which pro-Kremlin outlets and Russian authorities continue promoting despite repeated debunking.
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 program 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 “proofs”. This particular disinformation claim aims to push back against those debunks by falsely claiming that civilian research programs in Ukraine have a “dual use”.
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives in our database, such as claims that Russia presented evidence of US biolabs in Ukraine at the convention on biological weapons, that new evidence of US military-biological activity emerged in Ukraine, that disease outbreaks in Ukraine are linked to the activity of US biolabs, that Zelenskyy ordered the destruction of evidence regarding the development of biological weapons, or that bio-experiments in US labs turned Ukrainian soldiers into ‘most cruel monsters’.