Does the United States have bio-weapons labs in Ukraine?
According to the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, there’s an established Biological Threat Reduction Program:
The U.S. Department of Defense’s Biological Threat Reduction Program collaborates with partner countries to counter the threat of outbreaks (deliberate, accidental, or natural) of the world’s most dangerous infectious diseases. The program accomplishes its bio-threat reduction mission through development of a bio-risk management culture; international research partnerships; and partner capacity for enhanced bio-security, bio-safety, and bio-surveillance measures. The Biological Threat Reduction Program’s priorities in Ukraine are to consolidate and secure pathogens and toxins of security concern and to continue to ensure Ukraine can detect and report outbreaks caused by dangerous pathogens before they pose security or stability threats.
Current executive agents of the Biological Threat Reduction Program in Ukraine are the Ministry of Health, the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection, the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences, and the Ministry of Defense.
Ministry of Defense (MOD) COVID-19 Response Assistance
Sanitary-Epidemiological Department (SED) of the Medical Command of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense received four mobile laboratories from DTRA with the goal of reinforcing the system of epidemiological surveillance in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense received an official Order from the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine concerning the deployment of the mobile labs to the regions of Kyiv, Lviv and Eastern Ukraine to help with the COVID-19 response.
On April 11, 2020, President Zelenskyy visited the SED unit in Pokrovskoye City, Donetsk Oblast, and familiarized himself with the capabilities of the mobile laboratories to help military and civilian people during the COVID-19 epidemic. (News article)
Laboratory Construction
BTRP has upgraded many laboratories for the Ministry of Health and the State Food Safety and Consumer Protection Service of Ukraine, reaching Biosafety Level 2. In 2019, BTRP constructed two laboratories for the latter, one in Kyiv and one in Odesa.
Science Writing Mentorship Program (www.SWMProgramUA.com)
The Science Writing Mentorship Program (SWMP) was initiated at the beginning of 2016. The overall focus of SWMP is to advance One Health initiatives and disease risk mitigation in Ukraine through effective dissemination of scientific findings at BTRP-supported laboratories. The program seeks to improve the science writing skills of participants to afford them the opportunity for publishing and obtaining grants for projects.
In addition, there is an annual Ukraine Regional One Health Research Symposium that features participants of SWMP and many others. In 2019, the Symposium had a total of 553 participants and 446 presentations.
Active Research Projects
BTRP supports many collaborative research projects through which Ukrainian and American scientists work together. A few recent examples are:
- “Risk Assessment of Selected Avian EDPs Potentially Carried by Migratory Birds over Ukraine”
- “Prevalence of Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever virus and hantaviruses in Ukraine and the potential requirement for differential diagnosis of suspect leptospirosis patients”
- “The Spread of African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) in Domestic Pigs and Wild Boars in Ukraine – Building Capacityfor Insight into the Transmission of ASFV through Characterization of Virus Isolates by Genome Sequencing and Phylogenetic Analysis”
- “ASFBiosurveillanceand ASF Regional Risk Assessment: A Field to Plate Survey”
Conferences
BTRP invites Ukrainian scientists to participate in scientific conferences worldwide where they have the opportunity to present their work and integrate into the international science community.
Biosurveillance Network of the Silk Road (BNSR)
In 2016 the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and the State Service of Ukraine on Food Safety and Consumer Protection signed a memorandum on joining a multi-national working group with the goal to strengthen global health security and create well-functioning disease surveillance networks in the Eastern European region that includes Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine.
Reports continue circulating on mainstream news and social media about Russia’s attack on Ukraine.
Are Russian airstrikes targeting U.S. bio-weapons labs positioned in Ukraine?
That’s the theory investigated by a Twitter account named @WarClandestine.
@WarClandestine was suspended from Twitter hours after posting a detailed thread about this possibility.
Why was this account suspended?!? pic.twitter.com/Qu4hiu0626
— Tessa🧦🐒 (@DrTessaT) February 24, 2022
While you can read the entire thread on Thread Reader (for now), I’ve attached screenshots of the thread below for you to view.
Was @WarClandestine onto something here?
Here’s footage of a reported explosion in Lutsk, a town less than 75 miles from the Ukraine-Poland border:
Breaking: Explosion reported in Lutsk, Ukraine, which is less than 75 miles from the border of Poland. pic.twitter.com/oIEIVeVDF4
— PM Breaking News (@PMBreakingNews) February 24, 2022
Here’s footage of reported explosions on the outskirts of Kiev:
Explosions in the outskirts of Kiev #kiev #war #shelling #bombs #UkraineRussiaConflict pic.twitter.com/CjZl8LMAPx
— Stavros Ioannidis (@st_ioannidis) February 24, 2022
As reported by Newsweek in 2021, Putin’s adviser accused the U.S. of developing biological weapons near the Russian border:
Nikolai Patrushev, who is the secretary of Russia’s Security Council, made the comments during an interview with the newspaper Kommersant, in which journalist Elena Chernenko asked him about claims that China had “deliberately caused” the coronavirus pandemic.
Defending Beijing, Patrushev replied: “I suggest that you look at how more and more biological laboratories under U.S. control are growing considerably in the world and by a strange coincidence, mainly by the Russian and Chinese borders.”
Russia shares land borders with 16 countries—the most of any nation in the world. China shares frontiers with 14 countries, as well as the special administrative region of Hong Kong. Patrushev did not name any specific countries, but said: “Americans help local scientists develop new ways to fight dangerous diseases.”
In April 2020, Stalker Zone reported on U.S. biolabs in Ukraine:
"There's not much on #USBioLabs in Ukraine on the Internet. Bulgarian and Serbian journalists wrote about them, publishing a map in of Labs in Ukraine and documents from which it follows that the Pentagon is funding them"@WarClandestinehttps://t.co/dp2YmnIdHZ
— Sharon (@pastirka) February 24, 2022
On April 14th people’s deputies from “Opposition Platform – For Life” Viktor Medvedchuk and Renat Kuzmin wrote requests to four leaders of the country: President Zelensky, Prime Minister Shmygal, Head of the SBU Bakanov, and Minister of Healthcare Stepanov.
In an appeal with reference to Serbian and Bulgarian media, it is reported that the US has more than 400 bacteriological laboratories around the world, including at least 15 in Ukraine.
There are exclusively American ones, and they are financed at the expense of the US Department of Defence. The laboratories are located in Odessa, Vinnytsia, Uzhgorod, Lvov (three), Kiev (three), Kherson, Ternopol, and near Crimea and Lugansk.
People’s deputies note that the functioning of American biolaboratories in Ukraine started during the presidency of Viktor Yushchenko and the premiership of Yuliya Tymoshenko – August 29th, 2005.
At that time, cooperation agreements were signed between the US Department of Defence and the Ministry of Healthcare of Ukraine for the prevention of proliferation technologies (growth of body tissue by cell division), pathogens, and expertise that can be used for the development of biological weapons.
“In fact, the work in the laboratories is carried out under the program of biological experiments. The budget is $2.1 billion and is funded by the US Defence Threat Reduction Agency. The Scientific and Technical Center in Ukraine, an international organisation funded by the American authorities and whose staff have diplomatic immunity, has also become involved in this activity. This organisation is engaged in financing projects for the creation of weapons of mass destruction,” wrote Medvedchuk and Kuzmin.
Further, the people’s deputies point out that after the launch of biolaboratories in Ukraine there were outbreaks of infectious diseases.
“So, in Ternopol in 2009 there was a virus that caused hemorrhagic pneumonia. Its victims were 450 Ukrainians. In 2011, there was an outbreak of cholera in Ukraine – 33 people died. Three years later, cholera was diagnosed already 800 citizens, another year later more than 100 cases of cholera were recorded in Nikolaev.”
People’s deputies also gave such examples. In January 2016, 20 soldiers died from an influenza-like virus in Kharkov, and more than 200 were hospitalised. Two months later, 364 deaths were recorded in Ukraine. “The reason is swine flu of the same strain of influenza that led to the global pandemic in 2009,” say Medvedchuk and Kuzmin.
Bulgarian journalists published a map of laboratories in Ukraine:
I updated these maps to include the three military strikes in Lviv (far West) This ups Putin's possible strikes on #USBiolabs to 11.
Once again, thanks to @B_Twaha and @WarClandestine pic.twitter.com/qTC9HyepHs
— ᴍᴇᴍᴇᴍᴀʀ 🎨 (@ProjectMememar) February 24, 2022
The immediate suspension of @WarClandestine following his posting of the thread caught the attention of many Twitter users:
The account that got #USBiolabs trending, @WarClandestine, has been suspended.
Are there US bio labs in Ukraine? And if so, what is the current condition of those labs? pic.twitter.com/DCMNfpXMUO
— MAX PAIN (@sr_mateo_) February 24, 2022
This morning @WarClandestine shared a thread on the possibility that Russian air strikes were targeting #USBiolabs in Ukraine.
He backed this claim up with msm articles detailing these facilities and Putin's documented opposition to them.@warclandestine has now been suspended. pic.twitter.com/DnRDxa4KnR
— THE BRISTOL 'SI˥∩S Ǝ∀∩Ό∀' SOCIETY (@TheBristolPist1) February 24, 2022
Umm…what happened to the Twitter Account that tweeted this and why were they immediately shown the Tweaker door if this was just, you know, maybe possibly could be true?? 🧐🧐🧐🤔🤔🤔🤔 https://t.co/d1L9L07JEV
— Independent Unity Truthtellers💉=☠️#FreeFromFear🚛 (@IUTruthtellers) February 24, 2022
No idea if @WarClandestine's analysis about the attacks was correct, but they are right that Ukraine is infested with military bio-labs. According to @dgaytandzhieva, there are at least 11 of these labs operating throughout Ukraine. https://t.co/83wtq6R0ZM pic.twitter.com/2SkOKYYffp
— 𝙂𝙐𝙈𝘽𝙔 (@gumby4christ) February 24, 2022
Footage has also surfaced of Ukrainian soldiers allegedly burning documents next to an intelligence building in Kiev:
WATCH: Next to an intelligence building in Kiev, a group of Ukrainian soldiers burns documents.pic.twitter.com/JxbRdcAYkJ
— Election Wizard 🇺🇸 (@ElectionWiz) February 24, 2022
A lot of document burning reported all over Kiev 🇺🇦 https://t.co/unMZDX5DQm
— ЯΞD PILL LΞD 🔎 (@Red_Pill_Led) February 24, 2022
@WarClandestine returned to Twitter with the account username @BioClandestine.
He shared additional thoughts on his hypothesis:
HOLY SHIT INFOWARS USED MY HYPOTHESIS!
MY DMS ARE OPEN! https://t.co/9QmTRmYH4I
— BioLabClandestine (@BioClandestine) February 24, 2022
If you've been on the internet for the past 8 hours, you have seen my thread that went viral.
Twitter didn't like that. This is my new "address".
Spread the word. Let everyone know I'm back and we have work to do #USBiolabs
— BioLabClandestine (@BioClandestine) February 24, 2022
You all know exactly who I am and why Twitter is after me.
DO NOT STOP WE ARE OVER THE TARGET! #USBiolabs
— BioLabClandestine (@BioClandestine) February 24, 2022
He included an updated thread:
1) HOLY SHIT! I think I may be onto something about #Ukraine.
Zelensky said the Russians are firing at “military installations”. How broad is that term?
I am seeing speculation that could include US installed biolabs.
At first I was like no way.
Then I started digging. pic.twitter.com/J3wJkF4xTH
— BioLabClandestine (@BioClandestine) February 24, 2022
Will reporters ask Biden about the possibility of U.S. biolabs being targeted by the Russian military?
I highly doubt that question gets asked by any mainstream “journalists.”
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