DISINFO: US develop biological weapons at the border with Russia
SUMMARY
Despite the Biological Weapons Convention, the United States continues to strengthen its own by creating laboratories along the borders of its geopolitical adversaries. Washington state that there is no Biological Weapons Program in Ukraine. This statement leaves Moscow skeptical.
Neither Ukraine nor the United States have provided convincing evidence that their cooperation has helped to improve the sanitary and epidemiological situation, which has been steadily deteriorating over the past 15 years.
RESPONSE
Recurrent pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about biological weapons being secretly developed by the US in countries bordering Russia. This narrative is a leitmotif in a years-old disinformation campaign conducted by the Kremlin and is currently deployed in an attempt to justify Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
The report quotes US fact sheet released on 9 June 2022 stating that there is no Biological Weapons Program in Ukraine, but qualifies it as unconvincing.
The US Embassy in Ukraine previously addressed the claims about supposed bio-military labs in Ukraine, stating that this is a fabricated accusation in pro-Kremlin propaganda that aims to hinder the ongoing U.S.-Ukrainian partnership to reduce biological threats. The accusations are part of the Kremlin’s broader, long-lasting disinformation campaign to discredit the US in the eyes of Putin’s pro-Western neighbors such as Georgia and Ukraine.
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