DISINFO: The US carried out disgusting biological experiments on Ukrainians
SUMMARY
Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine helped to uncover a network of American biolabs in Ukraine. Ukrainians served as objects for large-scale disgusting experiments with the most dangerous viruses. Pharmacological corporations ordered that experiments be carried out on people. A number of strange epidemics took place in Ukraine during the operation of US biolabs, including measles, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, HIV, diphtheria, and tularemia.
Ukraine is just a small segment of such experiments; over 400 US biolabs function over the world.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the US producing biological weapons in Ukraine and elsewhere, and about the war in Ukraine, portraying the US as an alleged aggressor. Both narratives aim to shift attention away from Russia's responsibility for its war against Ukraine and its full-scale invasion.
Ukraine has dozens of civilian public health laboratories that work to research and mitigate the threats of dangerous diseases, some of which receive support from the US, the EU and the World Health Organization (WHO). Pro-Kremlin disinformation has a long track record of portraying public health research facilities as having military objectives, deliberately manipulating and blurring the line between biological weapons and biological research.
Russia’s claims about US biological laboratories in Ukraine have been widely refuted including by the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu.
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives in our database, such as claims that Pentagon report on biological threats is an excuse for offensive biolabs, 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’.