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DISINFO: Washington is creating biological weapons on the borders of Russia and China

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DISINFO: Washington is creating biological weapons on the borders of Russia and China

SUMMARY

Moscow suspects that Washington is working to create biological weapons in laboratories controlled by the Americans on the borders of Russia and China. In 2020, the Ukrainian Ministry of Health acknowledged the presence of experts from the Pentagon (US Department of Defense) in 8 Ukrainian biological laboratories.

RESPONSE

Recurring conspiracy theory alleging that the United States develops biological weapons and has secret biological laboratories around the world.

There are no secret US laboratories in Ukraine. A complete list of medical and scientific laboratories that the Pentagon has supported under the agreement since 2005 is on the website of the US Embassy in Ukraine, along with documents and amounts spent on the reconstruction of a particular facility.

The US Embassy in Ukraine has repeatedly denied the "creation of military biological laboratories" in Ukraine.

Current biological laboratories in Ukraine are involved in preventing the risks of complex diseases and, together with other similar projects, counteracting bioterrorism, that takes place exclusively within the framework of Ukrainian legislation and in the interests of Ukraine.

According to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), an agreement has been in force since 1993 to assist in eliminating strategic nuclear weapons and preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. One of its points is the timely detection and counteraction of outbreaks caused by dangerous pathogens.

Also in 2005, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and the US Department of Defense signed a framework agreement to prevent the proliferation of technologies, pathogens and knowledge that could be used in the development of biological weapons, all subordinate to the Ministry of Health and the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection.

See other examples in our database, such as claims that COVID-19 brought attention to US secret laboratories on the border of Russia and China; or that the US tests biological weapons on Ukrainians to further attack Russia or that Russia suspects the US of developing biological weapons in secret laboratories; or that the US involved in the release of COVID-19; or that US-controlled biolabs develop biological weapons under the guise of studying dangerous infections; or that COVID-19 is a multi-purpose biological weapon.

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