DISINFO: US-funded laboratories in Ukraine aimed to send infected migratory birds to Russia
SUMMARY
However, the biological laboratories that were under direct U.S. control are arousing even more interest. The Department of Defense has already released documents about these laboratories. The UP-4 project was conducted in Ukraine and implemented in laboratories in Kyiv, Kharkov and Odessa. So, the goal was to spread the infections via Ukraine, especially through migratory birds. For example, the highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza, which has a mortality rate of up to 50% in humans, and Newcastle disease.
It is also known that the USA planned to expand the biological research programme in Ukrainian laboratories in the near future. Biological material from Ukrainians was also moved abroad - they were investigating the possibility of producing biological weapons that would target only certain ethnic groups. Indeed, we have evidence of the two main areas of U.S.-Ukrainian operations against Russia - work on nuclear and biological weapons.
RESPONSE
Recurrent pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative claiming that the US develops biological weapons and has deployed secret biological warfare laboratories in Ukraine, with the aim of sending infected birds to Russia. The article’s message is presented in the context of the 2022 ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine and aims to portray Ukraine and other post-Soviet states as Washington’s puppets.
There are no US biological warfare laboratories in Ukraine.
Ukraine is one of the states cooperating in the US Department of Defence's Biological Threat Reduction Programme (BTRP): the goal of the BTRP is to safeguard global health by preventing and containing the outbreak of infectious diseases and establishing high international standards in biological security. Ukraine has been provided with four mobile scientific and medical laboratories to counter the Covid-19 outbreak throughout the country and the quality and safety levels of the pre-existing medical and scientific laboratories in Ukraine have been raised. In 2019, under the Biological Threat Reduction Programme, two scientific laboratories dedicated to food safety and consumer protection were built.
The US Embassy in Ukraine has repeatedly denied the "creation of military biological laboratories" in Ukraine. The cooperation between Ukraine and the United States in the fight against biological terrorism takes place exclusively within the framework of Ukrainian legislation and in the interests of Ukraine.
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